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Investigating the role of an enterprise architecture project in the business-IT alignment in Iran

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Ensuring that IT and business have a more mature alignment relationship is recognized as being critical to an organization’s success. To achieve alignment leveraging, enterprise architecture (EA) is considered fundamental as a comprehensive approach to planning and managing IT actions within the organization, based on its business requirements. This paper reports on a study to assess the effect of successful EA projects on the business-IT alignment in Iranian organizations, using the Luftman’s maturity model as the assessment tool. The implications of our findings in this study as well as its limitations are discussed to assist in detecting the flaws in the existing EA frameworks and to propose improvements.

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  1. \( \alpha = \frac{K}{{K - 1}}\left( {1 - \frac{{\sum\limits_{{i = 1}}^K {S_i^2} }}{{{S^2}}}} \right) \) where K is the number of questions, \( S_i^2 \) is the variance of the question i, and s2 is the variance of all questions.

  2. \( {t_{{1 - \frac{{0.05}}{2}}}}\left( {16 - 1} \right) = 2.13 \)

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Appendix A. Collected data based on the Luftman’s model

Appendix A. Collected data based on the Luftman’s model

Table 8 shows the frequencies of the observed data in this survey. This data was collected from 16 Iranian organizations for two states: before performing their EA project and after that.

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Alaeddini, M., Salekfard, S. Investigating the role of an enterprise architecture project in the business-IT alignment in Iran. Inf Syst Front 15, 67–88 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-011-9332-y

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