Designing Grounded Model of Enterprise Architecture Based on Information Technology Governance

The enterprise architecture with a general and comprehensive description of the Information Technology (IT) functions in the organization, attempts to reduce the complexity of using this technology and increase the efficiency that meet to the requirements and achievement of organizational goals. On the other hand, IT governance includes all effective efforts to direct and control the use of information technology in the organization. The existence of different frameworks of enterprise architecture, standards and their patterns with different approaches in the field of enterprise architecture and IT governance led to researcher to use comprehensive and compatible approach for the ETKA organization, Develop a paradigmatic model of enterprise Architecture model based on information technology governance using Grounded theory method. Data collection was done through observation and documenting techniques as well as unstructured and semi-structured interviews with 14 experts in IT governance and management. Data analysis in three stages of coding by Strauss and Corbin method using MAXQDA software resulted in 780 concepts and 48 subcategories. After selecting the core category and its regular relationship with other categories in axes comprising of causal, contextual, intervening conditions, strategies, and consequences as well. Therefore, the paradigm model of the research is developed.