Understanding Enterprise Architecture with Topic Modeling: Preliminary Research based on Journal Articles

The next 3 years will be more important than the last 50 due to the digital transformation across industries. Enterprise Architecture (EA), the discipline that should lead enterprise responses to disruptive forces, is far from ready to drive the next wave of change. The state of the art in the discipline is not clear and the understanding among researchers and practitioners is not aligned. To address these problems, we developed a topic model to help structure the field and enable EA to evolve coherently. In this preliminary study, we present the 360 identified topics in EA literature and their evolution over time. Our study supports and combines the findings from previous research and provides both a deeper analysis and more detailed findings.