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Enterprise Governance and Enterprise Engineering

  • Unified rather than fragmented treatment of corporate, IT and enterprise governance
  • Organismic rather than mechanistic approach to governance
  • Design focus rather than a control focus for avoiding strategic failures
  • Formal rather than unmethodical introduction of the IT and enterprise architecture concept based on viewing the enterprise as a socio-technical system
  • Employee-focused generative thinking/learning perspective on strategy development, rather than the top-down, management-focused rational thinking/planning perspective
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: The Enterprise Engineering Series (TEES)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  2. Basic Concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      Pages 3-24
    3. Enterprise Essentials

      Pages 79-115
    4. System Thinking

      Pages 117-149
  3. Governance Themes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
    2. Corporate Governance

      Pages 153-188
    3. IT Governance

      Pages 189-260
    4. Enterprise Governance

      Pages 261-342
    5. The Praxis Illustrated

      Pages 343-396
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 397-429

About this book

Achieving enterprise success necessitates addressing enterprises in ways that match the complexity and dynamics of the modern enterprise environment. However, since the majority of enterprise strategic initiatives appear to fail – among which those regarding information technology – the currently often practiced approaches to strategy development and implementation seem more an obstacle than an enabler for strategic enterprise success.

Two themes underpin the fundamentally different views outlined in this book. First, the competence-based perspective on governance, whereby employees are viewed as the crucial core for effectively addressing the complex, dynamic and uncertain enterprise reality, as well as for successfully defining and operationalizing strategic choices. Second, enterprise engineering as the formal conceptual framework and methodology for arranging a unified and integrated enterprise design, which is a necessary condition for enterprise success.

Jan Hoogervorst's presentation, which is based on both research and his professional background at Sogeti B.V., aims at professionals in management and consulting as well as students in management science and business information systems.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sogeti Nederlands BV, XB Diemen, Netherlands

    Jan A. P. Hoogervorst

About the author

Jan A.P. Hoogervorst studied Electrical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, and completed his dissertation in Work and Organizational Psychology at the Amsterdam Free University. He fulfilled a number of managerial functions at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and was responsible for Aircraft Systems Engineering, Aircraft and Aircraft Components Maintenance, Flight Crew Training, and Corporate Information Technology Strategy Development and Implementation. He currently works at Sogeti Netherlands as an organizational advisor and management consultant, and as part-time university lecturer in Enterprise Governance and Enterprise Engineering.

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Softcover Book USD 79.99
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