Laure-Hélène Thevenet

Strategic Alignment in the Context of e-Services --- An Empirical Investigation of the INSTAL Approach Using the Italian eGovernment Initiative Case Study

Strategic alignment is an issue that is not just met in companies, but also in governments, governmental agencies and public administrations. This paper investigates the issues raised by strategic alignment in the context of eGovernment initiatives focused on e-services. The analysis reports a case study that explores the strategic alignment issue with the INSTAL method. Two facets are tackled: (a) the modeling of strategic alignment using a formal approach, and (b) the elicitation of evolution requirements based on the analysis of strategic alignment models.

Enterprise Architecture, des problèmes pratiques à l'innovation

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Modeling Strategic Alignment Using INSTAL

Strategic alignment has emerged as a usual term over the last decades and is now widely used. Yet the definitions available are often vague and lack of formalism to support a systematic reasoning. One difficulty is to deal with high level organization objectives, which are complex by nature, rather informal and cross-cutting. This article presents parts of an Information System (IS) engineering method, called INSTAL, that guides the process of eliciting IS evolution requirements by analysing strategic alignment models. This paper focuses on the upper part of this process that consists in constructing these models. The INSTAL approach is original since it relies on a meta-model that defines alignment formally and it guides the construction of strategic alignment models with complementary techniques. The paper presents these features and their application onto a real case drawn of a French banking company.

MODELING STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT WITH THE INSTAL METHOD

The alignment issue is an important concern in Systems and Information Systems (IS) Engineering. System alignment aims at ensuring systems are consistent with different items such as business processes, legislation, and organization strategy. As mentioned by researchers, some alignment issues still remain unsolved. In fact, some problems and difficulties occur when dealing with alignment (conceptual mismatch between items to align, different granularity levels of items, important number of links, etc.). We believe that an intentional approach is needed to deal with these difficulties. We thus develop the IS engineering method, called INSTAL, presented here for the alignment of IS with organizations strategy based on intentional alignment models.

Alignement de la stratégie et du système d'information : Présentation de la méthode INSTAL

This article presents an Information System (IS) engineering method, called INSTAL, which proposes to study the alignment as a concept and so to model it. In this method, two entities are aligned if they have a shared intention. The method guides the process of documenting strategic alignment and of eliciting IS evolution requirements in order to ensure a consistent evolution of the organization strategy and the set composed of the information system and business processes. This paper gives an overview of the INSTAL method and focuses on the construction of strategic alignment models. The originality of the INSTAL approach is that it relies on a metamodel that defines alignment formally under several perspectives and on a methodological guidance of the process to construct, analyze and evolve strategic alignment models. Examples of the French Retail Banking BNP Paribas are used to illustrate our work.