A Framework to Support Business-IT Alignment in Enterprise Architecture Decision Making

2008

First published in the proceedings of the EBRF 2007 conference ”Research Forum to Understand Business in Knowledge Society”, September 25-27, Jyväskylä, Finland Business-IT alignment is one of the key concerns of general management and chief information officers. It is commonly recognized as an important instrument for realizing organizational effectiveness. Achieving business-IT alignment requires often change in the way managers regard IT and it demands co-operation between general and IT management. The challenge of aligning business- and IT-related concerns and requirements in architecture decision making situations is the focus of this study. As one possible solution, we present a fram…