The Importance of Strategic Alignment in Enterprise Collaboration

Towards a Framework for Inter-Enterprise Architecture to Boost Collaborative Networks

“…According to [6], strategic alignment is: "A dynamic and continuous process that enables integration, adjustment, consistency, understanding, synchronization and support between business and Information Systems/Information Technology (IS/IT), in order to contribute and maintain the correct performance of the organization, creating a competitive advantage that is sustained over time". It is clear that SCs and CNs have to be able to manage the technological complexities of their IS, while ensuring that these generate added value to business processes.…”

Inter-Enterprise Architecture and Internet of the Future

“…So far, in the context of the current research, three papers have been published that consolidate the state of the art research in three main topics: strategic alignment, enterprise collaboration and enterprise architecture [2,3,4]. In this section, we are going to brief the reader in a general way about the principal conclusions deduced in these papers, after a deep analysis of the literature.…”

“…According to the most important elements provided for several authors, in [4], we suggested the following definition for strategic alignment: "The strategic alignment of business and IS/IT is a dynamic and continuous process that enables integration, adjustment, consistency, understanding, synchronization and support between business strategies and strategies of IS / IT, in order to contribute and maintain the correct performance of the organization, creating a competitive advantage that is sustained over time".…”

“…Another previously unconsidered aspect in this generic process is the need for feedback between the parties once it has completed the process of collaboration in the stipulated horizon, which also must review the plan and modify if necessary. Thus, we proposed in [4], the following enterprise collaboration process: 1) Definition and collaboration agreement, 2) Planning in the local domain, 3) Plan of exchange, 4) Negotiation, exception handling and compensation system, 5) Execution, 6)…”

Using inter-enterprise architecture as an instrument for decision-making under the arrival of unexpected events in hierarchical production planning

“…Vargas et al (2011Vargas et al ( , 2013aVargas et al ( , 2013bVargas et al ( , 2014aVargas et al ( , 2014b propose solutions that guide collaborative networks (CNs) that use collaborative HPP and help them with the design of DSS tools for managing non-programmed decisions caused by the arrival of unexpected events. The paper is structured as follows: Section 2 describes briefly the related work in the fields of collaborative planning, DSSs and enterprise engineering/enterprise architecture (EI/EA).…”