Paper "Enterprise Coherence Assessment" geaccepteerd.

16-9-2011

Het paper Enterprise Coherence Assessment is geaccepteerd en gepresenteerd op de PRET conferentie in Luxemburg op 6 september 2011. Inmiddels heeft publicatie plaatsgevonden in de Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing van dit congres (Springer, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-642-23387-6). In dit paper wordt aangetoond dat in meer dan 85% van de onderzochte organisaties het schort aan "sturen op samenhang" en daarmee gevalideerd is een theorie hiervoor te ontwikkelen.

Abstract van dit paper:

In this paper, the authors discuss an instrument for the assessment of
enterprise coherence (Enterprise Coherence Assessment, ECA). The term ‘coherence’
is used rather than the more common term ‘alignment’, since the latter is
generally associated with bringing two concepts in line (typically ‘Business’ and
‘IT’). The word coherence, however, stresses the need to go beyond this. Coherence
involves connections and synchronisation between all important aspects of
an enterprise. ‘IT’ and ‘Business’ just being two of these aspects.
The ECA instrument was developed as part of the ongoing GEA (General Enterprise
Architecting) research programme, and has so far been applied in seven
large Dutch organisations. The paper discusses the context in which the ECA
instrument was developed, the instrument itself, as well as the results of the assessment
study in which the instrument was applied.
Keywords: business-IT alignment, enterprise coherence assessment, enterprise
architecture.