To align an IT system with an organization's needs, it is necessary to understand the organization 's position within its environment as well as its internal configuration. In SEAM for enterprise architecture the organization is considered as a hierarchy of systems that span from business down to IT. The alignment process addresses the complete hierarchy. We illustrate the use of SEAM for enterprise architecture with an example in which a new hiring process and an IT system are developed. With this approach it is possible to train new engineers in the design of business and IT alignment. It is also possible to scope projects in a way that integrate both business and IT strategies. This enables the consideration of IT developments in an enterprise-wide context.
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Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Publication DetailsWegmann, A., Regev, G., Rychkova, I., Le, L., Cruz, J. & Julia, P. (2007)
The early requirements of an IT system should be aligned with the organization's business imperatives.
To understand these imperatives it is necessary to understand the organization's position within its environment. SEAM for Business is a method designed for analyzing the competitive environment of an organization, including its relationships with its
International audienceRecent discussions raised by the BPM community illustrate the increasing demand of practitioners in the solutions for descriptive, knowledge-intensive processes. As a matter of fact, a majority of modeling formalisms presented on the market today fails in providing an appropriate level of adaptability while ensuring validation and control for such processes. In this work we present a modeling approach based on Declarative Configurable specifications that capture the processes at three abstraction levels: design, deployment, and execution. As a result, DeCo allows for separation of the process goals from the process means and, finally, from the process realization details improving adaptability and control
Process-aware information systems (PAIS) supporting knowledge-intensive processes are gaining importance nowadays. Crisis management process is an example of a knowledge-intensive process that is grounded on vast experience of multiple actors (e.g., city services, volunteers, administration) and their collaboration. Automated crisis management systems have to comply with various norms and regulations; at the same time, they need to constantly deal with uncertainty and adapt the process scenario to a current situation. In this paper, we consider the example of a flood management process implemented as a part of the COS Operation Center (COSOC)-a smart city solution that works with knowledgeintensive processes. We examine how the activity-oriented modeling paradigm underlying COSOC supports process flexibility. We propose an alternative way to specify the flood management process based on state-oriented paradigm and the statecharts formalism and discuss the advantages and limitations of the two paradigms.
To align an IT system with an organization's needs, it is necessary to understand the organization 's position within its environment as well as its internal configuration. In SEAM for enterprise architecture the organization is considered as a hierarchy of systems that span from business down to IT. The alignment process addresses the complete hierarchy. We illustrate the use of SEAM for enterprise architecture with an example in which a new hiring process and an IT system are developed. With this approach it is possible to train new engineers in the design of business and IT alignment. It is also possible to scope projects in a way that integrate both business and IT strategies. This enables the consideration of IT developments in an enterprise-wide context.
Disciplines
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Publication DetailsWegmann, A., Regev, G., Rychkova, I., Le, L., Cruz, J. & Julia, P. (2007)
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