Business-IT alignment is complicated because of the need to align multiple business and IT points of view. A philosophical foundation can help generate methods that bring together these disparate viewpoints in a common model that all stakeholders can agree upon. In this paper, we describe the philosophical foundations of the Systemic Enterprise Architecture Methodology (SEAM) and show how it ca...

Enterprise architecture enables strategic alignment through creation of a unified business and IS view of the target state of the business. Using a design science approach, this paper proposes an intent-based technique as an extension to existing modeling techniques for strategic alignment. The proposed approach defines a reference architecture of enterprise intent that includes vocabulary, rul...

We propose an efficient alignment method for textured DooSabin subdivision surface templates. A variation of the inverse compositional image alignment is derived by introducing smooth adjustments in the parametric space of the surface and relating them to the control point increments. The convergence properties of the proposed method are improved by a coarse-to-fine multiscale matching. The met...

beside developing strategies, success of organizations depends on alignment of strategies. one of the important functional areas in which companies develop strategies is operation. alignment of operation strategies is called horizontal alignment. the aim of this article is to present a model for alignment of operation strategies. to this end, an original algorithm has been presented by which ho...

Light field (LF) cameras can record scenes from multiple perspectives, and thus introduce beneficial angular information for image super-resolution (SR). However, it is challenging to incorporate due disparities among LF images. In this paper, we propose a deformable convolution network (i.e., LF-DFnet) handle the disparity problem SR. Specifically, design an alignment module (ADAM) feature-lev...

Previous research has proposed different types for and contingency factors affecting information technology governance. Yet, in spite of this valuable work, it is still unclear through what mechanisms IT governance affects organizational performance. We make a detailed argument for the mediation of strategic alignment in this process. Strategic alignment remains a top priority for business and ...

The resource-based view of the firm has not been systematically applied to strategic alliances. By examining the role of firm resources in strategic alliances, we attempt, in this paper, to put forward a general resource-based theory of strategic alliances, synthesizing the various findings in the literature on alliances from a resource-based view. The proposed theory covers four major aspects ...