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Towards Operationalizing Strategic Alignment of IT by Usage of Software Engineering Methods

An Enterprise–Modelling Oriented Approach to IT Governance

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This paper presents an enterprise–modelling oriented approach to IT Governance. Main requirements for a IT Governance Framework are presented and applicability is shown by means of operationalizing Strategic Alignment — a main focus area of IT Governance. Two frameworks are briefly described, namely PRO2SA (domain-specific for Strategic Business Alignment) and the general–purpose framework SQUAM for metamodelling, enterprise modelling and model-analysis. Key aspects of this approach are the information enrichment of enterprise models (mainly with key figures) and the integration into a Business Intelligence Suite for comprehensive business analysis.

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  1. Quality Engineering Research Group, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 21a, A–6020 Innsbruck,  

    Bernd Tilg, Joanna Chimiak-Opoka, Chris Lenz & Ruth Breu

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Tilg, B., Chimiak-Opoka, J., Lenz, C., Breu, R. (2007). Towards Operationalizing Strategic Alignment of IT by Usage of Software Engineering Methods. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72035-5_48

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