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With the emergence of mergers, acquisitions, and collaborative enterprises, the issues of alignment and interoperability in inter-organization information systems have become more complex than before. We propose a two level development approach driven by the intentional level and going to the process model level. Alignment and interoperability requirements are first decided at the intentional level. That is, (a) the intention of the inter-organizational system To Be is properly aligned with intentions of the individual systems that come together, and (b) the intentions of the individual systems must interoperate. Thereafter, at the process model level, process model of the system To Be needs to be properly aligned to its intention and the process models of the participating organizational systems interoperate. We develop a Two-dimensional framework to represent this. This framework drives a development method to support inter-organizational system development. We illustrate this method in a supply chain system example.
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Prakash, N. (2010). Intentional Alignment and Interoperability in Inter-Organization Information Systems. In: Nurcan, S., Salinesi, C., Souveyet, C., Ralyté, J. (eds) Intentional Perspectives on Information Systems Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12544-7_6
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