Learning Outcomes Assessed The following course learning outcomes are assessed by completing this assessment task: LO1. define enterprise architecture as a capability in organisations; LO2. restate business architecture and how to support the business to deliver strategic business outcomes; LO4. define the capabilities required to establish an enterprise architecture practice and explore tools required to support the team; LO6. evaluate and investigate key trends impacting organisations today and how enterprise architects respond to these trends. Assessment Details For this assignment, you will need to a research report of about 2000 words focusing on one of the following topics • Research the role of EA in Organisations • Discuss the role of EA in Business and IT Strategic Alignment • Discuss the Benefits and Challenges of EA in Organisations • Research and discuss the future of EA in Organisations Some of the important references are: 1. Lapalme, J., Gerber, A., Van der Merwe, A., Zachman, J., De Vries, M. and Hinkelmann, K., 2016. Exploring the future of enterprise architecture: A Zachman perspective. Computers in Industry, 79, pp.103-113. 2. Shanks, G., Gloet, M., Someh, I.A., Frampton, K. and Tamm, T., 2018. Achieving benefits with enterprise architecture. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 27(2), pp.139-156. 3. Rahimi, F., Gøtze, J. and Møller, C., 2017. Enterprise architecture management: Toward a taxonomy of applications. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 40(1), p.7. 4. Korhonen, J.J. and Halén, M., 2017, July. Enterprise architecture for digital transformation. In 2017 IEEE 19th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI) (Vol. 1, pp. 349-358). IEEE. 5. Dang, D.D. and Pekkola, S., 2017. Systematic Literature Review on Enterprise Architecture in the Public Sector. Electronic Journal of e-Government, 15(2). 6. Hinkelmann, K., Gerber, A., Karagiannis, D., Thoenssen, B., Van der Merwe, A. and Woitsch, R., 2016. A new paradigm for the continuous alignment of business and IT: Combining enterprise architecture modelling and enterprise ontology. Computers in Industry, 79, pp.77-86. 7. Gampfer, F., Jürgens, A., Müller, M. and Buchkremer, R., 2018. Past, current and future trends in enterprise architecture—A view beyond the horizon. Computers in Industry, 100, pp.70-84. 8. Foorthuis, R., Van Steenbergen, M., Brinkkemper, S. and Bruls, W.A., 2016. A theory building study of enterprise architecture practices and benefits. Information Systems Frontiers, 18(3), pp.541-564. 9. Banaeianjahromi, N. and Smolander, K., 2016. Understanding obstacles in enterprise architecture development. 10. Zhang, M., Chen, H. and Luo, A., 2018. A systematic review of business-IT alignment research with enterprise architecture. IEEE Access, 6, pp.18933-18944.