Business Process (BP) literature promotes the value of business processes as essential gearwheels that help organizations to reach their goals. Similarly, many process design approaches claim that Information Technology (IT) is a major enabler of business process, a view also shared by the...

The alignment of information systems (IS) strategies with business strategies has been a managerial priority in modern organisations. Information Technology (IT) governance is an alternative perspective that has recently been used as a management solution that can drive to desired levels of...

Measurement of the alignment between business strategies and information systems (IS) has demonstrated positive impact for the organizational performance. The factors that have proved relevant when assessing the maturity level of alignment are: communication, competency/value measurement,...

This research is concerned with the pre-implementation evaluation of investments in Information Systems (IS). IS evaluation is important as organisations need to assess the financial justifiability of business change proposals that include (but usually are not limited to) the introduction of IS...

Mainstream literature recognizes the validity and effectiveness of use cases as a technique for gathering and capturing system requirements. Use cases represent the driver of various modern development methods, mainly of object-oriented extraction, such as the Unified Process. Although the...

Despite numerous efforts to integrate business and IS strategic plans, organisations arenot delivering the expected benefits from IS investment. To address this issue, ISalignment research has discussed extensively the idea of establishing two-way commitment between business and IS managers....

The thesis investigates the effects that the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) hason the Higher Education sector. The alternative view presented by the thesis is thatmore knowledge can be created by concentrating on the different constituents of theRAE and their specific interactions with...