Institutions and contact tracing applications: Comparing design processes in France, Germany and the Netherlands

After the start of the COVID19 pandemic, many countries decided to develop digital contact tracing applications to assist in contact tracing. This aimed to warn people who were potentially infected as early as possible and stop them from spreading the virus further and bringing down the total amount of new infections. Even though there was some...

Managing Multi-Cloud Systems: A framework for effective management and governance of multivendor cloud arrangements

Multi-cloud systems are systems where multiple public clouds are combined. This can occur in either a service-based or a library-based system. With multi-cloud, challenges like interoperability and security come along. Technical solutions to approach multi-cloud and its challenges exist, but there is a lack of organizational knowledge on this...

Governance challenges of blockchain and decentralized autonomous organizations

The rise of blockchain has resulted in discussions on (new) governance models with multiple actors collaborating. Incidents and problems occurred due to flaws in blockchain protocols, smart contracts and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). Often it is unclear how decisions are made concerning evolvement of blockchain applications. In...

Governance as a Condition for Creating Business Value from Enterprise Architecture

IT Governance is often viewed as an important factor for creating business value for firms. However, there is limited work investigating the relationship between architectural governance and the contributions of enterprise architecture (EA) to firm performance. Based on a study of more than 15 cases the analyzes shows that architectural...

Evidence-Based Software Portfolio Management

Based on the large amounts spent by software companies to develop new and existing software systems, we argue that an evidence-based approach that focuses on a software portfolio as a whole should be in place to support decision-making. We developed EBSPM as an evidence-based, practical model to support software companies to actively steer at...