Authors:
Oscar Avila
1
and
Virginie Goepp
2
Affiliations:
1
School of Engineering and University of Los Andes, Colombia
;
2
INSA de Strasbourg-Icube, France
Keyword(s):
Information System, Metamodel, Strategic Alignment, Strategic Alignment Model (SAM), Specific Domain.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Business Models
;
Business-It Alignment
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
Abstract:
In the current competitive worlwide market, Information Systems (IS) are today necessaries in order to support
specific application domains or business areas that can give a strategic advantage to organizations. In this
context, IS alignment that exists when the IS and business goals and activities are in concordance, becomes
crucial. Several approaches have been proposed for building IS alignment. However, for aligning IS support to
specific application domains it is necessary to deal with their specific characteristics. Reviewing the literature,
IS alignment approaches addressing these specific characteristics have been proposed by extending the Strategic
Alignment Model (SAM) (Henderson and Venkatraman, 1993). Nevertheless, means for building new
models from the SAM constitutive elements have not been proposed yet. To cope with this lack, we propose
two metamodels: the SAM static view metamodel and the SAM dynamic view metamodel. The instantiation
of these metamodels enables the b
uild up of new models addressing the alignment of IS support to specific
application domains.
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