Integrating organisational design with IT design

  • Authors:
  • António Rito Silva;Michael Rosemann

  • Affiliations:
  • BPM Group/QUT, Brisbane, Australia,INESC-ID/IST/Technical University of Lisbon, Porto Salvo, Portugal;BPM Group/QUT, Brisbane, Australia

  • Venue:
  • DESRIST'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems: advances in theory and practice
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Most existing requirements engineering approaches focus on the modelling and specification of the IT artefacts ignoring the environment where the application is deployed. Although some requirements engineering approaches consider the stakeholder's goals, they still focus on the IT artefacts' specification. However, IT artefacts are embedded in a dynamic organisational environment and their design and specification cannot be separated from the environment's constant evolution. Therefore, during the initial stages of a requirements engineering process it is advantageous to consider the integration of IT design with organisational design. We proposed the ADMITO (Analysis, Design and Management of IT and Organisations) approach to represent the dynamic relations between social and material entities, where the latter are divided into technological and organisational entities. In this paper we show how by using ADMITO in a concrete case, the Queensland Health Payroll (QHP) case, it is possible to have an integrated representation of IT and organisational design supporting organisational change and IT requirements specification.