MODELING APPROACH FOR BUSINESS IT ALIGNMENT

Karim Doumi, Salah Baïna, Karim Baïna

2011

Abstract

Nowadays, the business IT alignment has become a priority in most large organizations. It is a question of aligning the information system on the business strategies of the organization. This step is aimed at increasing the practical value of the information system and makes it a strategic asset for the organization. Many works showed the importance of documentation, the analysis and the evaluation of business IT alignment, but few proposed solutions applicable to the strategic and functional level. This paper aims has to fill this gap by proposing a simple approach with has two levels of modeling (1) the strategic level, to model through the approach of goals modeling and (2) the functional level based on the approach of enterprise architecture. This approach is illustrated by case study of a real project in a Moroccan public administration.

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Doumi K., Baïna S. and Baïna K. (2011). MODELING APPROACH FOR BUSINESS IT ALIGNMENT . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-56-0, pages 457-464. DOI: 10.5220/0003588604570464


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@conference{iceis11,
author={Karim Doumi and Salah Baïna and Karim Baïna},
title={MODELING APPROACH FOR BUSINESS IT ALIGNMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2011},
pages={457-464},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003588604570464},
isbn={978-989-8425-56-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - MODELING APPROACH FOR BUSINESS IT ALIGNMENT
SN - 978-989-8425-56-0
AU - Doumi K.
AU - Baïna S.
AU - Baïna K.
PY - 2011
SP - 457
EP - 464
DO - 10.5220/0003588604570464