Business architecture methods: An initial review and mapping study

Eesha Oaj, Asif Gill, Madhushi Niluka Bandara

Abstract: Organisations are increasingly interested in applying digital data and technology to achieve their strategic sustainability and digitalisation goals, such as environmental, social and economic. Interest is there; however, the challenge is how to do so. Business architecture methods offer systematic approaches and techniques to help organisations achieve their strategic goals through effective planning, design, and adaptation to changes. This draws attention to a pressing need to review and map the available business architecture literature. Thus, this research uses adaptive enterprise architecture as a theoretical lens to review and map the selected business architecture methods systematically. The results of this review will help to determine the support and limitations of existing methods and provide a foundation for their improvement to support sustainability and digitalisation goals.