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Enterprise Architecture Management – Simple and Effective

A Practical Guide to Implementing EAM

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) must both enable and safeguard digital transformation. Enterprise architects must ensure that companies remain capable of making decisions and taking action in a volatile world, based on reliable information.
Implementing Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) in a company is a complex task. A clear vision and a beneficial, feasible initial implementation phase are crucial to success. The goal is to tailor the approach to stakeholders’ needs, relieve them of burdens in their daily work, and help them achieve their personal goals.
This practical guide supports you precisely in this endeavor. It has two main focuses: On the one hand, it provides a holistic view of Enterprise Architecture Management, its goals, and its benefits. Practical use cases provide business and IT leaders as well as IT strategists with compelling arguments to convince their organizations of the necessity of EAM. You will also learn, in concrete terms, how to implement EAM step by step within your organization.

  • Provides a step-by-step guide to a simple and effective approach to enterprise architecture management
  • Provides best practices for implementing and embedding EAM within an organization, based on proven methods and approaches
  • Clear visualizations and real-world examples will help you implement these concepts in your project
  • Organizes the topic for practical application using a consistent set of terms
  • New in the 4th edition: Artificial Intelligence and EAM, Agile EAM in Practice, Business-Driven EAM, and the latest standards in the EAM context
  • Additional resources: Collection of EAM best practices at plus.hanser.deand www.hanschke-consulting.com
  • Your exclusive benefit: An e-book is included with the purchase of the printed book
Author: Inge Hanschke

4th edition, February 2026

© 2026 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Lean IT Management – Simple and Effective

The key to effective IT management

In this book, IT managers and CIOs will find best practices for overcoming the challenges they face in planning and managing IT. Select the modules relevant to you for enterprise architecture management, process management, demand management, project portfolio management, or IT organization and IT governance. With the help of the guidelines, you can create a simple yet effective toolkit to master IT complexity on the one hand and to plan and manage changes and the further development of the IT landscape in a targeted manner on the other.
With the practical instructions and best practices, you can quickly achieve the quick wins relevant to you and design and establish your Lean IT management toolkit step by step in a value-oriented manner.

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  • A systematic, holistic approach and collection of best practices for developing your toolkit to ensure manageable IT planning and management
  • New in the 2nd edition: Agile Transformation, Agile Learning Organization
  • IT Management Tools and ITM Feature Map
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  • Your exclusive perk: Get the e-book for free when you purchase the print edition
Author: Inge Hanschke

2nd edition, May 2024

© 2024 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Information Security and Data Protection – Simple and Effective

Systematically develop and embed an integrated set of management tools

The threat landscape—and thus the challenges facing information security and data protection—continues to grow. A manageable, effective, and streamlined set of tools is therefore essential for every organization. This book outlines the standards, legal requirements, and implementation recommendations for data protection and information security, and provides guidelines and assistance for setting up your management system.
ISO 27001, as the international standard for information security, provides the framework for the management system. Through directly applicable lean best practices, you can more easily derive manageable regulatory requirements that are both ISO 27001-compliant and cover the modernized IT-Grundschutz. Of particular importance are integration with data protection (EU GDPR) as well as the applicability to other requirements and implementation recommendations, such as TISAX or FAIT.

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  • Mastering Information Security and Data Protection in a Practical Way
  • Understanding requirements in the context of information security and data protection
  • A systematic, step-by-step guide to building your toolkit
  • Best Practices for Needs Assessment, Risk Management, and Emergency Management
  • New in the 2nd edition: Updated status of all standards and improvements to the integrated information security and data protection toolkit
Author: Inge Hanschke

2nd edition, May 2025

© 2025 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Business Analysis – Simple and Effective

Understanding business requirements and translating them into IT solutions

Companies must be able to evolve and adapt quickly to prevailing market and economic conditions. Business analysis and its integration into demand management are key factors in achieving this. The necessary changes are identified, technically designed, and implemented. The project portfolio, as well as individual projects and maintenance activities, are aligned with business requirements, and productivity during implementation is increased. The number and scope of business requirements are significantly reduced through early assessment of their utility, consistency, and importance. Unnecessary duplication of work and value-destroying projects are avoided. This creates room for strategic initiatives.

In this book, we provide the fundamentals and best practices for conducting business analysis and help you bring demand management to life in both traditional and agile approaches.

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  • A systematic and comprehensive overview of business analysis and the field of demand management
  • The interplay between strategic, tactical, and operational planning levels
  • Comprehensive practical example
  • Collection of best practices for business analysis and tool support, as well as the organizational integration of demand management
  • A detailed description of the types of business analysis deliverables, including tips and tricks for their use, along with a business case analysis
  • Step-by-step guide to deriving business services
  • Your exclusive perk: Get the e-book for free when you purchase the print edition
Authors: Inge Hanschke, Daniel Goetze

3rd edition, March 2024

© 2024 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Simple & Effective Strategic IT Planning

Managing change effectively through a systematic and agile approach

Changes in business models driven by digital transformation and the fundamental upheavals resulting from, for example, the energy crisis and the pandemic, as well as ever-shorter innovation and product life cycles, place high demands on IT leaders in addition to ensuring reliable business operations. Efficiency and quality in service delivery, time-to-market, flexibility, and the ability to innovate are the key challenges that must be addressed simultaneously with increasing IT complexity.

IT must be strategically aligned and prepared for change in order to significantly increase its value contribution. Best-practice modules and step-by-step guides provide you with the tools you need to tailor your vision for a successful digital transformation.

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  • Master Strategic IT Planning Simply & Effectively
  • Provides best practices for lean and systematic strategic IT planning and digital transformation planning
  • Based on proven methods and procedures
  • Organizes the topic for practical application using a consistent set of terms
  • New in the 2nd edition: Practical, lean, and systematic strategic IT planning, complete with all the necessary methods and guidelines—guaranteed to succeed; methods for creating and maintaining a business capability map
  • Your exclusive perk: Get the e-book for free when you purchase the print edition
Author: Inge Hanschke

2nd edition, March 2024

© 2024 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Strategic Management of the IT Landscape – Simple and Effective

A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture Management

In this book, you will learn how, as an IT manager or CIO, you can align your IT landscape with the business, plan effectively, and drive its development.
You will receive guidance on how to act proactively and make well-informed decisions. Only in this way can you both enable business opportunities and safeguard business operations.
Key disciplines for this include strategy development, enterprise architecture management, lean demand management, and project portfolio management. These disciplines and their interplay are described in detail. You will receive guidance on building your own simple and effective strategic IT management toolkit, and in particular on establishing enterprise architecture management and embedding it within the organization.
The practical guidelines and best practices will enable you to establish and expand a simple and effective set of planning and control tools. On this basis, you can optimize IT support within your company, gradually expand the partnership within the organization, or even take on shared responsibility for shaping the business.

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  • Appendices containing guidance on implementation, templates for analyzing, designing, and planning the IT landscape, and additional information on the EAM maturity model and modeling guidelines
  • Step-by-step guides for maturity assessment, strategic IT planning, and IT governance
  • New in the 4th edition: In-depth coverage of agile planning, vision development, and decentralized governance
  • Your exclusive perk: Get the e-book for free when you purchase the print edition
Author: Inge Hanschke

4th edition, August 2023

© 2023 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Strategic Process Management – Simple and Effective

A Practical Guide

As a process manager, enterprise architect, or business analyst, you may find yourself unable to see the big picture because you’re overwhelmed by the sheer number of detailed processes. In that case, you need to establish a holistic view of the process landscape and its interdependencies so that strategic business or project decisions can be made based on that foundation. That is the strategic side of process management.

In this guide, the authors use numerous real-world examples to provide insight into what is truly essential for strategic process management. They also provide step-by-step instructions, from identifying and documenting business processes (end-to-end) to analyzing and designing the future process landscape. To this end, they introduce proven models and methods and demonstrate how these can be effectively utilized for business planning and strategic IT management.

With this support, you can easily and effectively create comprehensive process maps and the views needed by management. This allows you to gain an overview of the business processes critical to current and future business development and how they interact—thereby laying the groundwork for doing the right thing at the right time.

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  • Provides a step-by-step guide to establishing and successfully implementing strategic process management in your organization
  • Explains the most important models, as well as how they are created and their benefits
  • Based on methods and procedures that have been tested in numerous projects
  • Provides numerous tips for handling common use cases
  • 2nd Edition with Expanded Best Practices, Challenges in Digital Transformation, and an Outlook on “Business Architecture 4 Digitalization”
  • Your exclusive perk: Get the e-book for free when you purchase the print edition
Authors: Inge Hanschke, Rainer Lorenz

2nd edition, September 2021

© 2021 Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Agile in Business Practice

Identify and avoid pitfalls; unlock potential

This practical guide offers a concise introduction to agile methods and techniques, such as Scrum and Kanban, as well as continuous delivery and DevOps. Other key topics include successfully implementing and maintaining agility in hierarchical or “formal” organizations, as well as agile planning both prior to and during projects. The author provides numerous tips and tricks, as well as immediately applicable guidelines and recommendations.

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Author: Inge Hanschke

1st edition, September 2021

© 2021 Springer-Verlag GmbH

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