Supporting Change Management with Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Ontologies

Recently, the role of enterprise architecture (EA) has been extended. The organizations have become more aware of enterprise architecture and the necessities for working under architecture. Enterprise architecture framework can add value to organizations by driving continuous business-IT alignment and creating and maintaining a common vision of the future shared by both the business and IT communities. The continuous changes around the world make the enterprise change management more complex. Every single part of an enterprise is subject to change and each change may have considerable effects on other domains of the enterprise. Thus, the EA management enables organizations to continuously change their fundamental structure for managing change and evaluate the consequences of a specific change on the entire EA and recognize the potential impacts of a change before it actually takes place....