Rapid business changes require companies to make rapid changes in business processes and ultimately in BPS systems. These changes can be done rapidly if business modelers understand the base roles of business processes and relationships between these roles. In this paper we present an alternative to the traditional business processes modeling approaches. In our approach we make explicit roles p...

Business strategy aims at supporting the vision of an enterprise, by paving the way to achieve it through goals that direct the strategy’s execution. Aligning business strategy to system requirements requires explicit models from both business strategy and requirements engineering. However, existing business strategy definition approaches are informal and their syntax is based on natural langua...

In this paper, we show how business model modelling can be connected to IT infrastructure, drawing parallels from enterprise architecture models such as ArchiMate. We then show how the proposed visualization based on enterprise architecture, with a strong focus on business model strategy, can help IT alignment, at both the business model and the IT infrastructure level.

Businesses invest in developing information systems resources to gain competitive advantages. Literature has demonstrated the requirement of strategic alignment in converting these competitive advantages into sustained superior business performance. The knowledge of information systems strategic orientation and its relationship with business performance will enable these businesses to fine tune...

Business Process Management (BPM) involves identifying, modeling, understanding, rethinking and redesigning business processes so that they can achieve the organization’s goals. Using a goal oriented approach to model business process, such as i*, can systematically guide the alignment of the business processes with the strategic goals of the organization. In fact, there are more popular techni...

Facing pressures from an increasingly competitive business environment, manufacturing SMEs are called upon to implement strategies that are enabled and supported by information technologies and e-business applications. Based on the Internet and Web technologies, these include applications such as ecommunication, e-commerce, e-business intelligence and e-collaboration. From a contingency theory ...

Business process management and business rules management both focus on controlling business activities in organizations. Although both management principles have the same focus, they approach manageability and controllability from different perspectives. As more organizations deploy business process management and business rules management, this paper argues that these often separated efforts ...

If structured around an appropriate combination of business processes, knowledge and technology, Information Systems can become a very powerful business strategic lever. With this holistic perspective in mind, we redesigned the dysfunctioning IT project portfolio management process of one of the FTSE 100 global companies. The new process aims at better identifying, evaluating and balancing proj...

European Journal of Information Systems (2010) 19, 619–624. doi:10.1057/ejis.2010.50 We have been talking about strategic alignment between the business and information technology (IT) in organizational endeavor for at least two decades now (Venkatraman et al., 1993). Yet, despite heroic efforts on the part of researchers and practitioners we appear to be still far from achieving this business–...

The concept of “alignment” – between IS strategy and business strategy has become widely recognized as an important determinant of information systems success. Alignment is also an important consideration in the marketing domain, although there it usually concerns alignment between the organization and its customers. This study examines alignment between the IS and marketing functions. Field in...