The SDGs and Paris Climate Agreement, taken together, constitute the best hope for charting a new course world’s politics economics, to produce “the future we want.” This paper briefly explores central environmental, social, economic challenges; pathways sustainability; role of companies in achieving our global goals. We are facing four very deep interconnected environmental crises: human-induc...

In diesem Beitrag wird ein hierarchischer, mehrstufiger Ansatz für IT/Business Alignment vorgestellt, der auf der Unternehmensarchitektur als zentralem Koordinationsinstrument basiert. Den Ausgangspunkt bilden die Diskussion mehrstufiger, hierarchischer Systeme sowie die Beurteilung von Instrumenten für das IT/Business Alignment aus Sicht der Notwendigkeit einer konsistenten Gestaltung komplexe...

This study examines how and why strategic IT alignment can be used to create competitive advantage and to what extent information intensity affects this process. A model is tested to examine how and why strategic IT alignment can produce enhanced organizational knowledge that yields competitive advantage. The model differentiates between alignment between the business plan and IT plan (BP-ITP a...

This paper reports on a study exploring the cognition of executives regarding business-IT alignment. The project uses a cognitive mapping technique, known as the repertory grid, to explore the nature of the social dimension of alignment and its relationship to the intellectual dimension. The primary aims of this paper are to discuss the application and the contributions of the repertory grid to...

Received: 24 October 2012 Revised: 07 February 2014 Accepted: 28 February 2014 Abstract Top management has been concerned with IT-business strategic alignment (hereafter referred to as alignment) for the past 30 years. Consequently, alignment researchers have developed many models to explain how alignment generates value for firms. However, these models use inconsistent definitions and measures...

This paper presents a method for semantically aligning business processes. We provide a representation of Petri nets in the ontology language OWL, to semantically enrich the business process models. On top of this, we propose a technique for semantically aligning business processes to support (semi)automatic interconnectivity of business processes. This semantic alignment is improved by a backg...

Strategic alignment is a mechanism by which an organization can visualize the relationship between its business processes and strategies. It enables organizational decision makers to collect meaningful insights based on their current processes. Currently it is difficult to show the sustainability of an organization and to determine an optimal set of processes that are required for realizing str...

Currently organizations, pushed by several business and technological changes, are more concern about Information systems (IS) than ever. Though organizations usually still face each IS as a separately technological issue with slight relations with business domain. This paper discusses the importance of the Information System Architecture (ISA) as the tool for ensuring a global view on IS and f...

Frequently, the development of business processes and enterprise information systems (IT systems) is not well aligned. Missing alignment of business process design and IT system design can result in performance problems at runtime. Simulation is a promising approach to support the alignment of the designs by impact prediction. Based on the predicted impact, the designs can be adapted to enable ...