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Published in: Information Systems Frontiers 1/2013

01-03-2013

Investigating the role of an enterprise architecture project in the business-IT alignment in Iran

Authors: Morteza Alaeddini, Sepideh Salekfard

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Ensuring that IT and business have a more mature alignment relationship is recognized as being critical to an organization’s success. To achieve alignment leveraging, enterprise architecture (EA) is considered fundamental as a comprehensive approach to planning and managing IT actions within the organization, based on its business requirements. This paper reports on a study to assess the effect of successful EA projects on the business-IT alignment in Iranian organizations, using the Luftman’s maturity model as the assessment tool. The implications of our findings in this study as well as its limitations are discussed to assist in detecting the flaws in the existing EA frameworks and to propose improvements.
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\( \alpha = \frac{K}{{K - 1}}\left( {1 - \frac{{\sum\limits_{{i = 1}}^K {S_i^2} }}{{{S^2}}}} \right) \) where K is the number of questions, \( S_i^2 \) is the variance of the question i, and s2 is the variance of all questions.
 
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\( {t_{{1 - \frac{{0.05}}{2}}}}\left( {16 - 1} \right) = 2.13 \)
 
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Title
Investigating the role of an enterprise architecture project in the business-IT alignment in Iran
Authors
Morteza Alaeddini
Sepideh Salekfard
Publication date
01-03-2013
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Information Systems Frontiers / Issue 1/2013
Print ISSN: 1387-3326
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9419
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-011-9332-y

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