Use of DOI to establish the effects of Gwea implementation: a case of South African government

Abstract

Organisations often use enterprise architecture (EA) as a bridging method to align their business and Information Technology (IT) strategies. As a result, different available industrial enterprise architecture frameworks are adopted and used by these organisations to facilitate the EA implementation process. However, EA effort is presumed to be very costly and often takes a long time to implement before one can realize its benefits. It is also imperative to indicate that if the deployment of these EA frameworks is not well interpreted, challenges that can lead to the whole architecture implementation process being fruitless can be encountered. This study was conducted with the primary aim to understand the effects of government wide enterprise architecture framework (GWEA) implementation in the South African government departments through the use of diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory.