Study And Design On Enterprise Information Resources Planning Methodology-ILEA

With the development of informationization, Chinese enterprises have to face some challenges derived from complex technologies and management. How to allocate and manage information resources, deeply develop and utilize information resources, use IT effectively, realize IT value, and align IT with business is the big objective and issue of every organization. Developing, utilizing and sharing information resources are the start, and also the final end of enterprise informationization, as well as the goal of enterprise Information Resources Management (IRM). Thus, IRM becomes the core of enterprise informationization. Information Resources Planning (IRP) is the foundation of IRM. It is the key successful factor of the informationlization.Enterprise IRP requires the theory guidance and methodology innovation. After the review and analysis of IRP theories and methods, a framework called ILEA which is based on Enterprise Architecture and combined with information lifecycle is put forward. ILEA are the abbreviation of Enterprise Architecture Based on Information Lifecycle. In this dissertation, the basic components of ILEA and ILEA development method are designed comprehensively and systematically. And in the final part, a case study of a mechanical Chinese manufacturer on its IRP solution is presented in detail.There are six parts in the dissertation:Chapter 1:Introduction. According to our general goal of the whole country informationlization, this dissertation analyzes the situation of enterprise informationlization, the concerns of IRM and IRP, put forward the basic idea to deal with the issues, presents some terms of EA and ILEA, and describes the whole research outline of this dissertation.Chapter 2:Related theories of enterprise IRP. The first part in this chapter is about analysis of the features of enterprise and the synthesis of the basic concepts and methods of IRP. The second part highlights EA theory and its four popular methods including Zachman framework, TOGAF, FEA and Gartner process, compares them and gives the suggestion for the choice of different frameworks. Three EA maturity models which are NASCIO, GAO and E2AMM are also introduced in this part. In the final part of Chapter 2, some concepts, theories and methods which focus on information lifecycle and information lifecycle management are also presented deeply.Chapter 3:Design of ILEA. This is the core of the whole dissertation, which is about the research and design of ILEA. The objective is to guide the enterprise IRP program. In this chapter, we declare the objectives and principles of ILEA, and design the general ILEA framework consisting 9 components which are Environment Architecture, Strategy Architecture, Business Architecture, Technology Architecture, Security Architecture, Communication and ILEA Governance. The main objective of this chapter is to support the IT requirements analysis, IT systems building, and IT implement.Chapter 4:Developing method of ILEA. This is one of the critical chapters, which is about the research and design of ILEA developing method. The developing method is a practical method which consists of 8 steps, including ILEA Initiate, ILEA Vision, Future State Architecture, Current State Architecture, Gap Analysis, Migration Roadmap, ILEA Implement and ILEA maintenance. This chapter designs every step in detail, then gives some advices of the developing process governance, finally introduces some criteria of developing tools choosing. The objective of this chapter is to help enterprises design their specific architecture blueprints and implement it in order to maximize the value of information resources.Chapter 5:A case study of ILEA. This chapter focuses on an IRP solution which is about a mechanical Chinese manufacturer. It describes the detail design process of IRP solution and gets the final delivery.Chapter 6:Conclusion and future work. This is the last chapter of this dissertation which summarizes the whole research work and talks about some ideas of the future work.The research work of this dissertation has not only the academic value but also the practical value to the enterprise application. It extends the theory system on IRM and IRP. Meanwhile it provides the guidance and methodology to IRP program and to the enterprise informationlization as well. But due to some reasons, the research needs to be verified. I hope to do more research work on this issue.