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A Philosophical Foundation for Business and IT Alignment in Enterprise Architecture with the Example of SEAM

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev
2013
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Abstract

Business-IT alignment is complicated because of the need to align multiple business and IT points of view. A philosophical foundation can help generate methods that bring together these disparate viewpoints in a common model that all stakeholders can agree to. In this paper, we describe the philosophical foundations of the Systemic Enterprise Architecture Method (SEAM) and show how it can help business-IT alignment with the example of a concrete business process. These foundations are applicable to other methods as well.

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Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev
2013
Conference Papers

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/072e845e-4179-48af-807c-d9073ecbf519

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