Abstract
Aligning requirements of a business with its information technology is currently a major issue in enterprise computing. Existing literature indicates important criteria to judge the level of alignment between business and IT within a single enterprise. However, identifying such criteria in an inter-enterprise setting – or re-thinking the existing ones – is hardly addressed at all. Business-IT alignment in such settings poses new challenges, as in inter-enterprise collaborations, alignment is driven by economic processes instead of centralized decision-making processes. In our research, we develop a maturity model for business-IT alignment in inter-enterprise settings that takes this difference into account. In this paper, we report on a multi-method approach we devised to confront the validation of the business-IT alignment criteria that we included in the maturity model. As independent feedback is critical for our validation, we used a focus group session and a case study as instruments to take the first step in validating the business-IT alignment criteria. We present how we applied our approach, what we learnt, and what the implications were for our model.
Original language | Undefined |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE International EDOC Enterprise Computing Conference |
Place of Publication | Los Alamitos |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society Press |
Pages | 202-213 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Print) | 0-7695-2891-0 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2007 |
Event | 11th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2007 - Annapolis, United States Duration: 15 Oct 2007 → 19 Oct 2007 Conference number: 11 |
Publication series
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Publisher | IEEE Computer Society Press |
Number | LNCS4549 |
Conference
Conference | 11th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2007 |
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Abbreviated title | EDOC |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Annapolis |
Period | 15/10/07 → 19/10/07 |
Keywords
- SCS-Services
- METIS-242010
- IR-64429
- EWI-11271