Insights in Business / IT Alignment

The Public Research Centre Henri Tudor is pleased to invite you to the:

2nd Insights event “Business / IT Alignment”

Thursday, 3rd May 2012
Public Research Centre Henri Tudor | 29, avenue John F. Kennedy | Luxembourg-Kirchberg 

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The second Insights event: Business / IT Alignment will take place on May 3rd, 2012 from 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm at the Public Research Centre Henri Tudor. The series of Insights events aim to bring together practitioners and researchers to share insights, transfer knowledge, and identify open research issues/challenges in service innovation and enterprise transformations in general.

This Insights: Business / IT Alignment event proposes to the Executive, the CIO and any Organisation Manager, using IT to support his business, to discover open research issues, share practices, experiences and stakes with his peers and researchers in the field. Practical returns on experiences will be given by practitioners of Cetrel SA, ZithaKlinik, Ernst&Young Luxembourg SA, and the participants. Read the rest of this entry »

20th European Conference on Information Systems, 2012

ASINE is a track chair in ECIS2012, Barcelona June 11-13, 2012.
ECIS is considered the premier information systems event in the European region and provides a platform for panel discussions and the presentation of peer-reviewed academic research. All submissions are double-blind reviewed and recent acceptance rates have been roughly 30% range.

Enterprise transformation and information systems

The information systems (IS) discipline is commonly understood to be an integration discipline of people, IT artefacts, and (organisational) tasks. From an integration perspective, “run IS” and “change IS” need to be differentiated because these lenses focus on different phenomena and artefacts. Enterprise transformation is clearly positioned in the “change IS” perspective. Many IS practitioners will find themselves working in a context of enterprise transformation. It is undeniable that in modern day enterprises, business strategy, business processes and their supporting information systems have nearly “fused”. Therefore, it is useful to broaden the scope from analysing and designing specific artefact change (IS development, BPM) towards a more integral view, where business model change, business process change, and innovative IT artefacts are analysed and designed not only from an isolated project perspective, but rather from an enterprise-wide perspective.

 


Track: Enterprise engineering in MCIS2012

ASINE is a tarck chair in the 7th  Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, MCIS’12, September 8-10, 2012, Guimarães, Portugal.

Deadline for paper submissions: March 9th, 2012

Track description

Enterprise engineering is the general term for an engineering based approach to architect, transform or develop gradually enterprises. Enterprise engineering is based on rationales of how an enterprise wants to use its organizational socio-technical systems, such as business processes and information systems. This track is looking for contributions that describe appropriate approaches and methodologies to align business and IT, support the design and architecture of an enterprise, help in governance and evolution of an enterprise, contribute in implementation of methods and other instruments for enterprises. Moreover, contributions providing guidance in assessing maturity and quality of an enterprise will be appreciated.


PRET 4: CAiSE 2012

The fourth PRET event will take shape as the industrial track of the CAISE 2012 conference in Poland.

Important Dates

  • Full paper submissions: February 26
  • Notification of acceptance: March 23
  • Camera-ready copies: April 10
  • PRET@CAiSE: June 25-26

Aims and objectives

Modern day enterprises are in a constant state of flux. New technologies, new markets, globalisation, mergers, acquisitions, etcetera are among the “usual suspects” which require enterprises to transform themselves to deal with these challenges and new realities. Most information systems practitioners will find themselves working in a context of enterprise transformation. One could even go as far as to claim that a business oriented perspective on information systems is really about enterprise transformation, where enterprise transformation involves the use of methods and techniques from enterprise engineering, enterprise modelling, enterprise architecture, and information systems engineering. As a field of study, enterprise transformation requires a close interaction between practice and academia. What works and does not work requires validation in real-life situations. Conversely, it is in industrial practice where challenges can be found that may fuel and inspire researchers.

PRET events are set up as one day events that are embedded in larger academic and/or industrial conferences. PRET@CAiSE2012 is a continuation of the PRET tradition which started in 2009 where the first PRET event was already organized as the industrial track of the CAiSE2009 conference. In 2012 there will actually be two other conferences that will organise a PRET event.

 


ASINE represented at the second International conference on Exploring Service Science

ASINE will be represented at the second International conference on Exploring Service Science (IESS), to be held 15-17 february in Geneva, Switzerland. We present here a paper entitled “Integrating value modeling into ArchiMate”, a result from our efforts into model integration as described on this blog under the entry “Model integration: integrating value and transaction modeling into ArchiMate”.

working group on Architecture of Innovation Systems for enterprises

ASINE team representatives will attend mid-September to the launch meeting of a new working group of the (French) association CESAMES  on the topic of  Architecture of Innovation Systems for enterprises (ASI)… to check whether we should get more involved or not.

Planned work topics, to be covered in a “white book” to be written include
* Can we bring the Strategic Innovation process to Architecture?
* How to choose the systems elements and variables to integrate?
* How to relate these one to another?
* Which processes to scrutinize?
* Can we find a generic/reference system architecture?

We believe links with ASINE should be interesting, along with other research interests at Tudor, including that of IMAGINE and PROSERV research teams.

Model integration: integrating value and transaction modeling into ArchiMate

ArchiMate, a language for modeling Enterprise Architectures that has recently been adopted as an international standard by the Open Group, provides tools for expressing a holistic view of an enterprise in terms of its services, business units, business processes, ICT infrastructure and more.

Yet, ArchiMate lacks expressivity in modeling an enterprise from a value perspective, meaning that it lacks constructs for showing what a customer gains from an enterprise (e.g. in case of an airliner: getting a person from A to B), and, in case of a networked enterprise, what incentives enterprises have to collaborate. Furthermore, ArchiMate lacks rigor from a process modeling perspective: the basic constructs, such as tasks, exist, but no guidelines exist for evaluating the completeness of ArchiMate business process models (eg in case of an economic transaction: the modeling of compensation).

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PRET 2011 – Practice-driven Research on Enterprise Transformation

New technologies, new markets, globalisation, mergers and acquisitions are among the “usual suspects” which require enterprises to transform themselves to deal with these challenges and new realities. Enterprise transformation involves the use of methods and techniques from enterprise engineering, enterprise modelling, organisational change management, enterprise architecture, and information systems engineering. As a field of study, enterprise transformation requires a close interaction between practice and aca­demia. What works and does not work requires validation in real-life situations. Conversely, it is in industrial practice where challenges can be found that may fuel and inspire researchers.

The PRET working conferences are set up as a one day event in such a way that it attracts an audience from both industry and academia. PRET 2011 is a continuation of the PRET 2009 and 2010 working conferences. The PRET 2011 working conference will be organised as the industrial track of the 13th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC’11).

Programme

in Luxembourg, September 6, 2011, on the premises of CRP Henri Tudor (access map)

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Insights in Service Innovation

ASINE is glad to invite you to its first Insights, a free event for professionals and academics, on the 6th of September 2011, at CRP Henri Tudor, in Luxembourg (access map).

Enterprise Architecture – The business transformation cockpit

The InSIghts events focus on practical insights in service innovation and enterprise transformations in general. In doing so, it aims to bring together practitioners and researchers on current topics within the field, with the aim to share insights, transfer knowledge, and identify open research issues/challenges.

The program will involve three presentations, followed by a discussion between the audience and presenters.

This event is linked to the PRET industrial track and will be held during the CEC’11 conference.

More information & registration on Insights in Service Innovation.

Detailed Program

Insights: on the 6th of September 2011, at CRP Henri Tudor, in Luxembourg (access map).

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ASINE news#0: Service Innovation with Enterprise Architecture

The Public Research Centre Henri Tudor is delighted to propose you the first edition of its newsletter relaying our activities to support Service Innovation with Enterprise Architecture.

Included topics: Events – Do You Know What Your Modellers Are Really Trying To Say?  – Calls For Collaboration – Jobs

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ASINE news #0 – Service Innovation with Enterprise Architecture – Q4.2011