Building Digital Ecosystem Architectures : A guide to Enterprise Architecting digital technologies i

Second book cover. provisional publication date 17 october 2015

Building Digital Ecosystem Architectures: A guide to the Architecture of Digital Technologies in the Digital Enterprise

Author: Professor Mark Skilton

Palgrave macmillan Professional International , “Building the Digital Economy” Series.

This book is aimed at practitioners involved in the strategic planning, design and implementation of enterprise architectures.

The scope of the book covers architectural concepts and design features used in developing digital technologies in mobile, cloud computing, social network media, big data, Internet of Things sensors, machine learning, and cyber security. A working definition of digital workspaces is provided as a architectural building block for a digital enterprise illustrated with working examples from many industry case studies. The evolution of enterprise architecture practices are explored in the development of digital platforms to enable physical and virtual social and material object collaboration and experience. We identify emerging digital design patterns and see the emergence of ecosystem architecture concepts to enable market making of digital enterprise activity and how digital technologies are clustering, moving competition to the digital ecosystems level.

The key topics covered include

• Concepts of digitization

• Types of technological ecosystems

• Architecting digital workspaces

• Principles of architecture design

• Examples architecting digital business models

• Examples of digital design patterns

• Methods of monetization

• Conclusions

BOOK STRUCTURE

The design of digital solutions has become a pressing concern for practitioners faced with a plethora of technology impacting their business. From cloud computing to social networks, mobile computing and big data to the emerging of Internet of things are changing how enterprise products and services, the rooms and building that are connected to the wider ecosystem of networks and services. The aim of this book seeks to define a distinct approach in firstly, defining how these digital ecosystems are defined with examples from real industry cases. Secondly, how enterprise architecture is evolving to address the connection to User Experience (UX) , Customer Experience (CX) and the digital workspaces that connect these physical organization with the virtual enterprise.

The scope of the book covers architectural concepts and design features used in developing digital technologies in mobile, cloud computing, social network media, big data, Internet of Things sensors, machine learning, and cyber security. A working definition of digital workspaces is provided as a architectural building block for a digital enterprise illustrated with working examples from many industry case studies. The evolution of enterprise architecture practices are explored in the development of digital platforms to enable physical and virtual social and material object collaboration and experience. We identify emerging digital design patterns and see the emergence of ecosystem architecture concepts to enable market making of digital enterprise activity and how digital technologies are clustering, moving competition to the digital ecosystems level.

Among its most distinctive features, the book provides

• A workable technical definition of a digital enterprise and digital ecosystems

• An extensive discussion on digital design using converging technologies of social media networking, mobility, big data, cloud computingand M2M Internet of Things sensors.

• A novel new approach to designing enterprise architecture using digital workspacesthat drive payback outcomes

• A expanding set of techniques and digital design patterns from cross-case analysis to illustrate successful design methods for building digital enterprise and digital ecosystems in the digital economy.

These features are important because understanding the impact of digitization on enterprise architecture and the challenges for people and organizations trying to build and grow their digital enterprise. Following the definitions to Digital Ecosystems and the use cases, the book has two extensive and important chapters pertaining to identifying and making sense of physical working environments turning them into successful digital workspaces. This is followed by specific techniques for how these workspaces become digital platforms and examples of digital design patterns. The purpose of this provides a connective flow between strategies to the architectural design using digital technologies.

The book seeks to appeal to practicing professional and academic audiences involved in the strategic planning, design and implementation of digital enterprise architectures. The focus of the text is on the lessons learnt drawn from cross-case analysis and from all these cases from direct experience of practitioners in the field. Each chapter will seek to define an insightful set of characteristics associated with digital ecosystem solutions success.

The sequence of the chapters deliberately follow a linear flow from understanding the digital ecosystem concepts and helps bound the scope that we explore in the book and frames the illustrating use case examples in industries. We then introduce a novel way of understanding the digitization of physical workplaces into workspaces using technologies. The final chapters provide an analysis and set of lessons learnt in enterprise architecture practices designing key digital workspaces using technologies that make up a digital enterprise to achieve successful payback outcomes.

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