Enterprise architecture of Colombian Higher Education

Colombian Higher Education Enterprise Architecture is a framework for managing the system-of-systems lifecycle of Higher Education Programs. With this framework is possible to model scenarios about the government as a regulator of Higher Education services, the educational institutions as providers of higher education services and the different business and social sectors, and individual citizens as clients of higher education services. Under this perspective all the stakeholders can participate in the planning, development, transfer, use and control of all the products and services lifecycles of higher education in order to prioritize improvement alternatives and measure progress when it is moving towards excellence in training processes, research, innovation, development and knowledge transfer. CHE²A is a supportive environment for the management of higher education as a public service, which hosts the vision of "Global Coalition Intelligent Network Services (-GIUNC-) to analyze and evaluate systematic, systemic and logistically, the characteristics of processes, outputs and outcomes and risks through key factors such as those proposed by the - GIUNC- itself, Registry of Qualification established by the Ministry of Education of Colombia or other similar factors established by national or international entities, from which, the stakeholders in the Higher Education services, interpret, evaluate, argue, propose, define, plan, implement and measure strategies, tactics and actions for improvement, innovation and development higher education programs. CHE²A is a knowledge management system that is enriched by the experience of organizations and supports innovation in higher education toward a high performance service. The approach set CHE²A does not advocate specific tools, methods or practices, but promotes a new way of thinking, to solve the great challenges of the interactions of technology, power, politics and economics made involves the general study design, complexity and systems engineering. Although these systems often exhibit behaviors systems of complex systems, however, not all complex problems fall within the scope of systems of systems. This article presents the context, perspective and use of CHE²A through its models ontological, epistemological, methodological and regulatory that allow navigate the life cycles of products and services offered by higher education institutions and all those entities benefiting from this results achieved.