Prithvi Bhattacharya,

Modelling Strategic Alignment of Business and IT through Enterprise Architecture:

Augmenting Archimate with BMM,
Procedia Computer Science,
Volume 121,
2017,
Pages 80-88,
ISSN 1877-0509,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.11.012.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050917322032)
Abstract: In the last decade, Enterprise Architecture (EA) has been proposed to
have the potential to improve and support strategic alignment between business and
IT. This paper presents a new model, using a new modelling technique based on two
leading modelling techniques, to depict strategic alignment between business and IT
through the lens of an Enterprise Architecture framework, The Open Group
Architecture Framework (TOGAF). The contribution of this paper is two-fold.
Firstly, it augmented the Archimate modelling notation with the constructs of the
Business Motivation Model (BMM) to present a more comprehensive technique of
modelling strategic alignment of business and IT. Secondly, the paper also presents
a new model that aims to explain the mechanism through which an Enterprise
Architecture can enable strategic alignment between business and IT.
Keywords: Enterprise Systems; ERP; Enterprise Architecture; Strategic Alignment;
Enterprise Modelling