Business-IT Misalignment Symptom Detection based on Enterprise Architecture Analysis

While organisations address business-IT alignment achievement, they are continually suffering from misalignments. The paper deals with the concept of misalignment, with special attention to enterprise architecture (EA)based analytical potential. In this study an analytical solution is built to approach the topic of strategic alignment from an EA-based perspective. The study aims to accomplish an EA-based, systematic analysis of mismatches between business and information systems. The operation, the correctness as well as the relevance of the framework is validated via a case study. The contribution of the proposed study lies in connecting typical misalignment symptoms to relevant EA analysis types along traditional alignment perspectives. The proposed framework has the potential to extend our understanding on assessing the state of misalignment in a complex EA model