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    Internetressourcen zu IT/Business Alignment
    (Wirtschaftsinformatik: Vol. 48, No. 5, 2006) Gericke, Anke; Stutz, Matthias
    IT/Business Alignment IT/Business Alignment has become a key issue for many companies. Therefore a lot of companies, institutions and universities have published documents about this topic. This paper is intended to give an overview of these resources found in the Internet.
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    The procurement alignment framework construction and application
    (Wirtschaftsinformatik: Vol. 48, No. 5, 2006) Beukers, Mark; Versendaal, Johan; Batenburg, Ronald; Brinkkemper, Sjaak
    Procurement has become increasingly important for organizations acting in dynamic supply chains and competitive markets. In practice however, companies struggle with adapting and improving their procurement business function. In line with the general trend in management and organization studies, both scholars and practitioners aim to define an integrated procurement policy that is truly aligned on all organizational and IT aspects. The central aim of this paper is to present a framework that supports the definition and application of such an integrative procurement approach. The framework is developed upon insights from IT business alignment (more specifically IT Procurement alignment), procurement maturity measurement and segmentation. It facilitates organizations in monitoring the maturity and alignment of their procurement on five different business/IT perspectives. In addition, the framework enables specific procurement improvements by taking the situational aspect of procurement segmentation into account. The framework was validated twice: through interview expert consulting and through a questionnaire using scale analysis. In a case study it was found suitable for assessing procurement maturity and identifying concrete procurement improvements.
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    Virtuelle Entkopplung von fachlichen und IT-Strukturen für das IT/Business Alignment – Grundlagen, Architekturgestaltung und Umsetzung am Beispiel der Domänenbildung
    (Wirtschaftsinformatik: Vol. 51, No. 2, 2009) Aier, Stephan; Winter, Robert
    Die Integration von Business und IT ist eines der Kernthemen der Wirtschaftsinformatik. Die direkte Punkt-zu-Punkt-Kopplung von fachlichen und IT-Artefakten wird den Anforderungen an die Änderbarkeit von fachlichen und IT-Architekturen nicht gerecht. Die Informatik hat beispielsweise mit der Einführung der „Dreiebenen-Datenbankarchitektur“ eine virtuelle Zuordnungsarchitektur geschaffen, die Elemente der externen und internen Ebene über die konzeptuelle Ebene entkoppelt. Dieser Beitrag entwirft analog dazu eine Alignment-Architektur für das IT/Business Alignment und stellt als entsprechende Artefakte fachliche Services, Applikationen und Domänen vor. Als Alternative zu verbreiteten Top-down-Ansätzen für die Bildung von fachlichen Services, Applikationen und Domänen wird am Beispiel der Domänenbildung ein Bottom-up-Ansatz vorgeschlagen und anhand einer Fallstudie aus der Telekommunikationsindustrie demonstriert.AbstractIT/business alignment is one of the main topics of information systems research. If IT artifacts and business-related artifacts are coupled point-to-point, however, complex architectures become unmanageable over time. In computer science, concepts like the ANSI/SPARC three-level database architecture propose an architecture layer which decouples external views on data and the implementation view of data. In this paper, a similar approach for IT/business alignment is proposed. The proposed alignment architecture is populated by enterprise services as elementary artifacts. Enterprise services link software components and process activities. They are aggregated into applications and subsequently into domains for planning/design and communication purposes. Most design approaches for the construction of enterprise services, applications and domains are top-down, i. e. stepwise decompose complex artifacts. As an alternative which takes into account coupling semantics, we propose a bottom-up approach which is demonstrated for the identification of domains. Our approach is evaluated using a telecommunications equipment case study.