Architectural coordination of enterprise transformation (ACET) integrates and aggregates local
information and provides different viewpoints such as financial structural or skill
perspectives to the respective stakeholder groups with the aim of creating a consensus and
shared understanding of an enterprise transformation among the stakeholders. Its core purpose
is to inform decision-makers with both local and enterprise-wide concerns so that the overall
transformation goals can be successfully pursued i.e. reducing inconsistencies and including
local decisions in the overarching goals.This book consists of three major parts framed by an
introduction and a summary. To enable readers to gain a better understanding of the issues
involved in real-world enterprise transformations as well as the possible role of architectural
coordination and the associated challenges Part I provides an analysis of status quo of
corporate ACET practice. Part II then continues with an exploration of the challenges facing
ACET from a theoretical perspective. Based on these challenges Part III then presents a
collection of components for a possible design theory for ACET. Instead of an integrated method
this collection of components constitutes method fragments that can be arranged in different
ways depending on the perspective taken the actual enterprise architecture management approach
the enterprise transformation type and the transformation's context.
