A framework for information systems architecture
IBM Systems Journal
Goal-directed requirements acquisition
6IWSSD Selected Papers of the Sixth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design
Guiding Goal Modeling Using Scenarios
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Competing in the Information Age: Strategic Alignment in Practice
Competing in the Information Age: Strategic Alignment in Practice
Aligning Legacy Information Systems to Business Processes
CAiSE '98 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Towards Modeling and Reasoning Support for Early-Phase Requirements Engineering
RE '97 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering: A Guided Tour
RE '01 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
Matching ERP System Functionality to Customer Requirements
RE '01 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
In their own words: CIO visions about the future of in-house IT organizations
ACM SIGMIS Database
Information and Management
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 08
Key issues in information systems management: an international perspective
Journal of Management Information Systems
Aligning application architecture to the business context
CAiSE'03 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Fitting business models to system functionality exploring the fitness relationship
CAiSE'03 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
A process for generating fitness measures
CAiSE'05 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Integrating B-SCP and MAP to manage the evolution of strategic IT requirements
Information and Software Technology
Business strategy-IT alignment in a multi-actor setting: a mobile e-service case
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Electronic commerce
CAiSE '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Modeling Strategic Alignment Using INSTAL
ER '08 Proceedings of the ER 2008 Workshops (CMLSA, ECDM, FP-UML, M2AS, RIGiM, SeCoGIS, WISM) on Advances in Conceptual Modeling: Challenges and Opportunities
ServiceWave '08 Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Towards a Service-Based Internet
Fitting System Functionality to Business Needs: Alignment issues and challenges
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of the 9th SoMeT_10
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Aligning Information Systems (IS) to organization's strategic business objectives is one of organizations' top preoccupations. Misalignment is considered as a reason of IT's failure to improve organizational performance. If strategic alignment is relatively simple to understand, it is not so easy to implement. Our experience showed us that organizations are not really able to systematically evaluate whether there is alignment, mainly because of the lack of documentation on strategic alignment. This paper intends to deal with this issue by proposing an approach to describe organizations' strategic objectives and its IS, in order to document and analyze strategic alignment, i.e. how the IS contributes to strategic objectives satisfaction. The proposed method, called INSTAL (Intentional Strategic Alignment), reuses organization documents as a basis to formalize strategic alignment. INSTAL was created following the principles of an action research approach, which consists in developing the approach while exploring issues raised by the case study.