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The Intellectual Dimension of IT-Business Alignment Problem: Alloy Application

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Information technologies have evolved from its traditional back office role to a strategic resource role able not only to support but also to shape business strategies. For over a decade IT-business alignment has been ranked as a top-priority management concern and is widely covered in literature. However, conceptual studies dominate the field, while there is little research on practical ways to achieve the alignment. The aim of this paper is to formalize and verify the alignment assessment model developed in the previous research by integrating the traditional Strategic Alignment Model and EA framework TOGAF in an attempt to provide a practical approach to the alignment evaluation and implementation. The Alloy Language and Analyzer are used as a means of model formalization and verification.

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  1. Department of Information Systems and Technologies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Bol. Pecherskaya 25, 603155, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    Marina Ivanova & Pavel Malyzhenkov

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  2. Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    Eduard Babkin

  3. Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

    Russell Lock

  4. Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    Pavel Malyzhenkov

  5. Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Vojtěch Merunka

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Ivanova, M., Malyzhenkov, P. (2018). The Intellectual Dimension of IT-Business Alignment Problem: Alloy Application. In: Pergl, R., Babkin, E., Lock, R., Malyzhenkov, P., Merunka, V. (eds) Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation. EOMAS 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 332. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00787-4_11

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