Impact of Change in Business IT Alignment: Evaluation with CBITA Tool

Abstract

Organizations introduce changes to adapt to an agile context in a turbulent environment. These change often have an impact on business and information technology. In most cases, the change impacts organizational elements that make the adaptation not well defined, leaving out elements that can lead to misalignment. The change is realized in this article as a project, which will impact all the Business-IT alignment elements. It is important to know the scope of the impact in order to make a complete adaptation. By reviewing the literature, we found that there is no work dealing with this aspect. To fill this gap, we determine the impact of the project on the organization by considering of Business-IT alignment and we proceed with a comparison of the AS IS model of the organization with the TO BE model which is the target to be implemented keeping the system aligned. Accordingly, we propose a metamodel for change by the impact of the project on the Business-IT alignment and a set of rules and algorithms to predict the impact and adaptation. To make these contributions operational, the implementation of Change Business-IT Alignment Tool and demonstrate its applicability through a case study of an urban agency.

Impact of Strategic Initiatives on the Adaptation of Enterprise Architecture

“…It also complexifies the operational models making them difficult to maintain. The absence of monitoring of these initiatives leads to the abandonment of projects and a waste of effort and time (Kawtar et al, 2020;Kitsios and Kamariotou, 2019).…”

“…Conversely, change impacts various levels of an enterprise. It has external and internal sources (Kawtar et al, 2020). It can be triggered strategically or operationally (Hinkelmann et al, 2016).…”

“…They evolve continuously due to internal and external factors (Hanelt et al, 2021;Saunders et al, 2008). On the other hand, the main reasons that lead to the failure of implementation of strategic initiatives or projects are the lack of monitoring and the lack of impact evaluations (Kawtar et al, 2020;Kitsios and Kamariotou 2019). The implementation of strategic initiatives requires Information systems and business capabilities (Saunders et al, 2008).…”

“…This range was selected to cover the most recent publications and the research stream of "adaptation of Enterprise Architecture" (Anthony Jnr, 2021). The First screening helped with the identification of research gaps and limitations (Daoudi et al, 2021;Kawtar et al, 2020). On top of the language, the type of articles, and the publication date range, we selected the following inclusion and exclusion criteria:…”

“…When moving from an 'As-Is' to a 'To-Be', EA should support continuous multi-level improvement to proactively address evolving requirements (Daoudi et al, 2021;Masuda and Viswanathan, 2019). The continuous response to change materializes as strategic initiatives impacting one or many layers of the EA and influencing the relationships between the components of their architecture (Daoudi et al, 2021;Kawtar et al, 2020).…”