Authors:
Oscar Avila
;
Virginie Goepp
and
François Kiefer
Affiliation:
INSA de Strasbourg, France
Keyword(s):
Manufacturing information system, information system alignment; alignment framework.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Requirements Analysis And Management
;
Software Engineering
;
Systems Engineering
Abstract:
Today companies need flexible and adaptable Information Systems (IS) to support their business strategies and organisational processes, as well as to facilitate their adaptation to changes in environment. In particular, in the manufacturing sector companies need flexible IS to make the integration of infrastructures easier, to support production management and to be able to respond to the evolution of support technologies. To deal with these specific requirements the alignment between the manufacturing IS with the organisation's strategy and its outside environment is necessary. However, most of the research in the IS alignment field is related to the alignment of IS with the organisation's strategy, neglecting the alignment with the external environment. Thus, in order to support complete alignment of manufacturing IS we propose in this paper an extension to the Strategic Alignment Model (SAM) of Henderson and Venkatraman (1999). The extended SAM allows the definition of possible al
ignment perspectives that accentuate elements to be aligned and the alignment sequence. This set of perspectives and the extended SAM are a first step towards tackling the alignments with the strategy and with the environment.
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