Innovation management and enterprise architecture: how enterprise architecture can help identify patterns in innovation management

Abstract

Innovation is an impact driver for the development of organizations, which is why many of them have been implementing innovations into their business strategies. However, the success of implementation varies significantly from company to company. The purpose of this paper was to identify successful patterns of Innovation Management in the most innovative companies with the help of the Enterprise Architecture approach and the ArchiMate modelling language. This is an important contribution since modelling Innovation in a precise and comprehensive way allows comparing the models for different companies and finding gaps which prevent innovations from being successfully implemented in other companies.