Goal Based Alignment of Enterprise Architectures

Balbir S. Barn, Tony Clark

2012

Abstract

Business and IT alignment remains an ongoing concern for organizations. In this paper, we propose a set of technologies and concepts - notably goals and computable functions which can be used to provide a measure of equivalence between as-is and to-be enterprise architectures.

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in Harvard Style

S. Barn B. and Clark T. (2012). Goal Based Alignment of Enterprise Architectures . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8565-19-8, pages 230-236. DOI: 10.5220/0004081802300236


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft12,
author={Balbir S. Barn and Tony Clark},
title={Goal Based Alignment of Enterprise Architectures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2012},
pages={230-236},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004081802300236},
isbn={978-989-8565-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Goal Based Alignment of Enterprise Architectures
SN - 978-989-8565-19-8
AU - S. Barn B.
AU - Clark T.
PY - 2012
SP - 230
EP - 236
DO - 10.5220/0004081802300236