THE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT ROLE – AND ITS MISSION IN CORPORATE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY – A CZECH STUDY
THE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT ROLE – AND ITS MISSION IN CORPORATE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY – A CZECH STUDY

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the relatively new role “Enterprise Architect” in Czech companies. Enterprise Architect is a specific role, which supervises the architecture of the whole corporate system and the design of its parts and methodologies in the ICT area. For these tasks, the people in the role “Enterprise Architect” possess a wide spectrum of knowledge and skills. We then define the scope of the Enterprise Architect role in the companies; we describe its core activities in practice and the concrete jobs that can be carried out by the role. All, that is set against the backdrop of the Czech Republic's labor market. In view of the market structure, we analyze these requirements from multiple aspects, dominated by the company size and dependence of the company on using ICT. The article includes a presentation of our research methodology, including the solution for measuring the knowledge in the different knowledge domains. The principles of the methodology are confronted with the approaches that were used in surveys conducted in other countries. In the end, the identified requirements for this role are formulated as well as their dependence on the monitored impacts of these requirements on the options for educating of experts in universities.

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