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

Regev, GilBajic-Bizumic, BiljanaGolnam, ArashPopescu, GeorgeTapandjieva, GoricaSaxena, Anshuman BahadurWegmann, Alain2014-05-222014-05-222014-05-222013https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/103547Business-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.Business-IT AlignmentTheoryPhilosophyMethodologySEAMServiceSystems InquiryPhD HiringA Philosophical Foundation for Business and IT Alignment in Enterprise Architecture with the Example of SEAMtext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper