Implementing GPI, a Language for Organizational Alignment

Organizational alignment aims to align strategic, tactical and operational decision levels in a given organization. The traditional operational view, focused on processes, produces gaps between strategic and operational layers. As such, many tools and techniques were developed giving more focus on one of the layers failing to promote their integration. In our current research, we are trying to identify ways to better represent organizational alignment, for an improved organizational analysis. Following in this direction, we integrated a process and a goal modeling notations (BPMN and i*) and inserted metric oriented elements, generating the GPI (Goal, Process and Indicators) language. Then a tool was created by reusing the Oryx architecture. This paper briefly present the GPI language, details its implementation in the Oryx editor and reports on ongoing research on alignment based on this infrastructure.