An enterprise engineering approach for the alignment of business and information technology strategy
Information systems and information technology (IS/IT, hereafter just IT) strategies usually depend on a business strategy. The alignment of both strategies improves their strategic plans. From an external perspective, business and IT alignment is the extent to which the IT strategy enables and driv...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2011 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repository: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/35034 |
| Online Access: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/35034 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Business and IT strategic alignment Enterprise architecture framework Enterprise engineering ORGANIZACION DE EMPRESAS Gestión y gobierno de las ti 33415 / R - Máster universitario en ingeniería informática 2233 |
| Summary: | Information systems and information technology (IS/IT, hereafter just IT) strategies usually depend on a business strategy. The alignment of both strategies improves their strategic plans. From an external perspective, business and IT alignment is the extent to which the IT strategy enables and drives the business strategy. This article reviews strategic alignment between business and IT, and proposes the use of enterprise engineering (EE) to achieve this alignment. The EE approach facilitates the definition of a formal dialog in the alignment design. In relation to this, new building blocks and life-cycle phases have been defined for their use in an enterprise architecture context. This proposal has been adopted in a critical process of a ceramic tile company for the purpose of aligning a strategic business plan and IT strategy, which are essential to support this process. © 2011 Taylor & Francis. |
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