dóra Őri: analysing enterprise architecture models to detect misalignment symptoms
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Analysing Enterprise Architecture Models to Detect Misalignment Symptoms
Dóra Őri PhD student Corvinus University of Budapest
The importance of business-IT alignment
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Use IT effectively to achieve business
goals
The ability of IT to create
business value
Bridge the gap
between business and IT
Integrate IT to business strategy, mission,
goals
The need for aligning business and IT
On the way to misalignment
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Failures while achieving alignment
Different objectives, culture, body of knowledge between business
and IT
Fail to adapt to rapid changes in
technological environment
A mistake anywhere along
the way can appear as
misalignment
...
Explanatory misalignment symptoms
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Undefined organizational strategy and organizational goals
Undefined business process goals
Undefined security requirements over the information entities
Users managed differently in different applications
Undefined capacity and performance requirements
Lack of relation between process goals and organizational goals
Lack of data ownership
Poor IT planning and portfolio management
Multiple hierarchy or lines of reporting
Lack of data quality controls
Lack of applications interfaces
Multiple applications managing the same information
Enterprise architecture-based alignment assessment
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Enterprise architecture
assessment for analysing the state of
business-IT alignment in an
organisation
Enterprise architecture
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A framework:
to capture a vision of the entire system in all its dimensions and complexity
to coordinate the many facets that make up the fundamental essence of an enterprise
to provide a structure for business processes and supportive information systems
which acts as an integrating force between aspects of business planning, business operations and the enabling technological infrastructure of the business
…in all its dimensions and complexity…
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Rephrasing misalignment
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…the inaccurate mapping between the different architecture layers.
…an irregular condition that derogates the different architecture components together with the desired fit between them.
In the context of enterprise architecture misalignment is…
Misalignment assessment
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Assessing the state of
alignment/ misalignment in an organisation
Looking for misalignment symptoms in enterprise
architecture models
Identifying inaccurate mappings between
architecture layers
Enterprise architecture-based misalignment symptom detection
Research questions
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How can the misalignment problem be rephrased in the context of enterprise architecture?
Can we implement a research tool to detect misalignment symptoms in enterprise architecture models?
Which misalignment symptoms can be detected via enterprise architecture assessment?
Summary
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Misalignment symptom
detection via enterprise
architecture assessment
Enterprise architecture assessment
Alignment -misalignment
continuum
The need for
business-IT
alignment
Misalign-ment
symptoms
Enterprise architecture
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Thank you for your attention!
Dóra Őri PhD student
Corvinus University of Budapest [email protected]
Assessing the state of
alignment/ misalignment of an organisation
Looking for misalignment symptoms in
enterprise architecture
models
Identifying inaccurate mappings between
architecture layer
Enterprise architecture-based misalignment symptom detection