Towards an Enterprise Architecture based Strategic Alignment Model - An Evaluation of SAM based on ISO 15704

Virginie Goepp, Michaël Petit

2013

Abstract

The Strategic Alignment Model (SAM) remains one of the most relevant and cited models aiming at helping managers to achieve business/IT (Information Technology) alignment. Several alternative approaches extend or improve this model. A notable stream of research suggests applying Enterprise Architecture principles complementarily or independently to the SAM. We analyze these proposals and argue that they are sometimes fuzzy and hard to compare because they all use a specific structure or vocabulary making the objectivation of their strengths and weaknesses difficult. Some common vocabulary and concepts such as those of the ISO 15704 standard on Enterprise Reference Architectures and Methodologies are needed to make their comparison rigorous. We report on our ongoing research, using this standard to analyse the SAM.

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Goepp V. and Petit M. (2013). Towards an Enterprise Architecture based Strategic Alignment Model - An Evaluation of SAM based on ISO 15704 . In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-61-7, pages 370-375. DOI: 10.5220/0004564003700375


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@conference{iceis13,
author={Virginie Goepp and Michaël Petit},
title={Towards an Enterprise Architecture based Strategic Alignment Model - An Evaluation of SAM based on ISO 15704},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2013},
pages={370-375},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004564003700375},
isbn={978-989-8565-61-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Towards an Enterprise Architecture based Strategic Alignment Model - An Evaluation of SAM based on ISO 15704
SN - 978-989-8565-61-7
AU - Goepp V.
AU - Petit M.
PY - 2013
SP - 370
EP - 375
DO - 10.5220/0004564003700375