4^th Workshop on Business and IT Alignment (BITA 2013)

in conjunction with
16th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2013)

Poznań, Poland
June 19, 2013

Deadline for submissions: May 1 (11:59pm CET), 2013

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A contemporary challenge for enterprises is to keep up with the pace of changing business demands imposed on them in different ways. There is today an obvious demand for continuous improvement and alignment in enterprises but unfortunately many organisations don’t have proper instruments (methods, patterns, best practices etc.) to achieve this. Enterprise modelling and business process management are two areas belonging to a tradition where the mission is to improve business practice and business and IT alignment. In this tradition the alignment process usually is manifested in taking a business from one state (AS-IS) into another improved state (TO-BE), i.e. a transformation of the business and its supporting IT into something that is regarded as better. A challenge in business and IT alignment is to move beyond a narrow focus on one tradition or technology. There is a need to aware of and able to deal with a number of dimensions of the enterprise architecture and their relations in order to create alignment. Examples of such dimensions are: organisational structures, strategies, business models, work practices, processes, and IS/IT structures. Among the concepts that deserve special attention in this context is IT governance. Effective IT governance aligns IT investments with overall business priorities, determines who makes the IT decisions and assigns accountability for the outcomes.

This workshop aims to bring together people who have strong interest in business and IT alignment. We would like to invite researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia to submit original results of their completed or ongoing projects. We encourage broad understanding of possible approaches and solutions for business and IT alignment, including IT governance subjects. Specific focus will be on practices of business and IT alignment, i.e. we encourage submission of case study and experience papers.

Topics

• Challenges in business and IT alignment
• Business and IT alignment in small and medium sized enterprises
• Business/ IT alignment through BPM
• Business and IT alignment discovery, change and improvement - methodologies and best practices
• Business value of business and IT alignment
• Organisational implementations of various levels of business and IT alignment approaches
• Metrics associated with the alignment life cycle, re-design, implementation, management and improvement
• Best practice business and IT alignment case studies
• The relationship between BPM and enterprise architecture
• Critical success factors and associated KPIs´ for alignment initiatives
• IT governance as a mean for alignment
• Enterprise modelling as a tool for business and IT alignment
• Human aspects of business and IT alignment; organizational staffing and structure, change management and leadership strategies
• Design thinking in business and IT alignment
• Practices of business and IT alignment
• Experience reports and case studies

Submission

• Long papers: max. 12 pages

Workshop format

Important dates

• May 1 (11:59pm CET), 2013 - submission deadline for papers (deadline extended)
• May 14, 2013 - notification of acceptance/rejection
• May 30, 2013 - submission of final papers
• June 19, 2013 - the workshop

Organizers

• Jönköping University
• Rostock University

Chairs

• Ulf Seigerroth
• Kurt Sandkuhl

Program Committee (to be extended)

• Rimantas Butleris, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
• Wolfgang Deiters, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany
• Eric Dubois, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
• Mathias Ekstedt, KTH, Sweden
• Remigijus Gustas, Karlstad University, Sweden
• Terry Halpin, LogicBlox, Australia
• Lennart Holmberg, , Sweden
• Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Jarl Höglund, Allmentor AB, Sweden
• Pontus Johnsson, KTH, Sweden
• Havard Jorgensen, Commitment AS, Norway
• Tomasz Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
• Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
• John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Michel Leonard, Université de Geneve, Switzerland
• Mikael Lind, Boras University, Sweden
• Christer Nellborn, Nellborn Management Consulting AB, Sweden
• Björn Nilsson, Anatés AB, Luxembourg
• Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
• Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
• Oscar Pastor, Valencia University of Technology, Spain
• Anne Persson, Skövde University, Sweden
• Naveen Prakash, GCET, India
• Erik Proper, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Jolita Ralyte, Université de Geneve, Switzerland
• Ulf Seigerroth, Jönköping University, Sweden
• Kurt Sandkuhl, Rostock University, Germany
• Guttorm Sindre, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Renate Strazdina, Ernst&Young SIA, Latvia
• Nikolay Shilov, SPIIRAS, Russia
• Janis Stirna, KTH, Sweden
• Vladimir Tarasov, Jönköping University, Sweden