The Application of Knowledge Management to Overcome Barriers to Enterprise Architecture Adoption: A South African Motor Vehicle and Asset Finance Case Study

@inproceedings{Gumede2019TheAO,
  title={The Application of Knowledge Management to Overcome Barriers to Enterprise Architecture Adoption: A South African Motor Vehicle and Asset Finance Case Study},
  author={Innocent Gumede and Jacobus Philippus van Deventer and Hanlie Smuts and Joyce Jordaan},
  booktitle={KEOD},
  year={2019}
}
Information Technology (IT) enables an organisation to gain competitive advantage by exploiting new opportunities and capabilities offered by evolving technologies. Therefore, it is required to holistically align IT strategy with organisational strategy, and Enterprise Architecture (EA) is considered as a means to achieve such alignment. However, EA adoption is impacted by many organizational barriers and in particular organisational culture factors. Knowledge Management (KM) is a candidate to… 
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