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- Adaba, Godfried Bakiyem, et al.
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Business-IT Alignment in Trade Facilitation : A Case Study
- 2010
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Ingår i: Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society. - Berlin Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag. - 9783642163234 ; , s. 146-
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the information age, no organization can thrive without harnessing the power of IT. The effective deployment of IT to achieve business goals and gain competitive advantage requires the alignment of business and IT strategies of organizations. Using the Strategic Alignment Maturity model, this paper evaluates strategic alignment maturity of Customs Excise Preventive service, a frontline public organization charged with trade facilitation in Ghana. Strategic alignment maturity is at level 3; which implies the existence of an established process to leverage IT for efficiency and effectiveness. Efforts are required to strengthen alignment and fully harness the potential of IT to facilitate trade in Ghana.
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- El-Mekawy, Mohamed, et al.
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A Framework to Support Practitioners in Evaluating Business-IT Alignment Models
- 2013
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems. - : Association for Information Systems. ; , s. 1-12
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many business-IT alignment (BITA) models have been designed to support organizations in achieving, assessing and maintaining alignment between business and IT. These models focus on different components and emphasize different perspectives. This makes it difficult for practitioners to choose appropriate BITA models given organization at-hand. In this paper, an evaluation framework supporting practitioners to choose appropriate BITA models is presented. The framework was designed following design science as main research approach. The design process was based on literature and empirical studies. The literature study contributed in constructing a tentative version of the framework which was refined through an empirical study in 6 organizations. The final framework consists of 25 criteria categorized into four groups, and was demonstrated on six major BITA models showing its feasibility. Finally, the framework was evaluated by interviewing two business consultants and three CIOs from large-sized Swedish companies. The evaluation shows the framework having a complete set of criteria, but its usability and efficiency could be increased.
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- El-Mekawy, Mohamed, et al.
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A Unified Building Model for 3D Urban GIS
- 2012
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Ingår i: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. - : MDPI AG. - 2220-9964. ; 1:2, s. 120-145
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Several tasks in urban and architectural design are today undertaken in a geospatial context. Building Information Models (BIM) and geospatial technologies offer 3D data models that provide information about buildings and the surrounding environment. The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and CityGML are today the two most prominent semantic models for representation of BIM and geospatial models respectively. CityGML has emerged as a standard for modeling city models while IFC has been developed as a reference model for building objects and sites. Current CAD and geospatial software provide tools that allow the conversion of information from one format to the other. These tools are however fairly limited in their capabilities, often resulting in data and information losses in the transformations. This paper describes a new approach for data integration based on a unified building model (UBM) which encapsulates both the CityGML and IFC models, thus avoiding translations between the models and loss of information. To build the UBM, all classes and related concepts were initially collected from both models, overlapping concepts were merged, new objects were created to ensure the capturing of both indoor and outdoor objects, and finally, spatial relationships between the objects were redefined. Unified Modeling Language (UML) notations were used for representing its objects and relationships between them. There are two use-case scenarios, both set in a hospital: evacuation and allocating spaces for patient wards were developed to validate and test the proposed UBM data model. Based on these two scenarios, four validation queries were defined in order to validate the appropriateness of the proposed unified building model. It has been validated, through the case scenarios and four queries, that the UBM being developed is able to integrate CityGML data as well as IFC data in an apparently seamless way. Constraints and enrichment functions are used for populating empty database tables and fields. The motivation scenarios also show the needs and benefits of having an integrated approach to the modeling of indoor and outdoor spatial features.
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- El-Mekawy, Mohamed, et al.
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A unified building model for a real 3D cadastral system
- 2015
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Ingår i: Emerging issues, challenges and opportunities in urban e-planning. - Hershey, PA : IGI Global. - 9781466681507 - 9781466681514 ; , s. 252-279
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Cadastral systems today are mostly based on digitally represented 2D parcel maps or land registries of 3D components referenced to different documents. With clear limitations to this method, this chapter focuses on creating 3D property information based on existing 3D building models. It starts by investigating shortages of the most prominent semantic building models for BIM and geospatial models (IFC and CityGML, respectively) as well as a pre-developed Unified Building Model (UBM). The result shows that neither one of the three has capabilities for complete 3D cadastre systems. The chapter proposes an extension to the UBM by adding four subtypes to the boundary surfaces above- and under-ground, namely “Building Elements,” “Digging,” “Protecting Area,” and “Real Estate Boundary.” The extended UBM is then implemented in a case study of a hospital building in Sweden and shown to be able to model all surfaces that define 3D cadastral information of buildings. The extended UBM is argued to contribute to e-planning in cities and urban applications as well as to 3D cadastral applications.
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- El-Mekawy, Mohamed, et al.
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An evaluation framework for comparing business-IT alignment models : A tool for supporting collaborative learning in organizations
- 2015
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Ingår i: Computers in human behavior. - : Elsevier BV. - 0747-5632 .- 1873-7692. ; 51:Part B, s. 1229-1247
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Researchers and practitioners have argued on the importance of business-IT alignment (BITA) for organizations to maximize the business value of IT. As a result, a vast number of BITA models have been designed to support organizations in achieving, assessing and maintaining BITA. These models focus on different components (i.e. concepts/aspects of alignment) and emphasize different perspectives of the alignment (i.e. how alignment is perceived by practitioners). This makes it difficult for practitioners to choose an appropriate BITA model for a specific organization. In this paper, an evaluation framework to support practitioners in choosing appropriate BITA models is proposed. The framework was constructed following design science as a research approach. The design science activities were carried out in an iterative manner until reaching a final artefact. The process started with an extensive literature survey that led to designing a tentative model. Following that, different empirical iterations contributed to the framework development. The final framework consists of 25 criteria categorized into four groups. It was tested on six major BITA models, demonstrating its feasibility. Finally, the framework was evaluated by interviewing five business consultants and seven IT managers from large Swedish organizations. The evaluation shows that the framework has a complete set of criteria with a sufficient level of coherence, but its usability and efficiency is argued differently. The framework, additionally, is argued to potentially be used as a collaborative learning tool on requirement of BITA between practitioners from both business and IT domain or serve in the academic world.
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- El Mekawy, Mohamed, et al.
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Business and IT Alignment : An Evaluation of Strategic Alignment Models
- 2009
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Ingår i: BEST PRACTICES FOR THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY: KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY FOR ALL. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ; , s. 447-455
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The process by which business and IT are brought inline with each other to enhance the performance of business and to achieve business goals is called strategic alignment. Some models have been developed for the assessment of strategic alignment but an evaluation and comparison of capabilities of the models has not been studied due to the absence of a structured evaluation criteria.. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the strategic alignment models, collected through a comprehensive survey. For this purpose, we develop a strategic alignment evaluation framework which is a composition of a number of criteria. We further use this framework for the evaluation of six main alignment models. These models present concrete ways to evaluate strategic business IT-alignment.
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- El-Mekawy, Mohamed, 1977-, et al.
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Business-IT Alignment and Organizational Culture Relationships : Towards an Integrated View
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2016). - : Association for Information Systems.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The analyses of literature on business-IT alignment (BITA) and Organisational Culture (OC) domains of prac-tice revealed needs for combined studies as the impact of each domain on the other is not well studied in re-search. The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a set of relationships between components of BITA and OC towards development of a BITA-Culture integrated view. For achieving this purpose, we adopted a multi-stage (based on mixed-method) approach starting by an extensive literature review on both BITA and OC for constructing hypotheses on correlations between their components. Following that, an empirical research was conducted in three case organisations for empirical investigation of relationships and for refining the hy-potheses. To test the research hypotheses an extended quantitative test was performed by a survey on 117 busi-ness and IT practitioners. The results were the bases for developing the BITA-Culture integrated view. This integrated view is aimed to support both practitioners in order to understand the insights of the relationships between BITA and OC components and provide a road-map for improvements or desired changes in OC with highlighted target business areas.
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- El-Mekawy, Mohamed, et al.
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Extending BITA maturity model from organizational culture perspective
- 2011
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Ingår i: Proc. Annu. Hawaii Int. Conf. Syst. Sci.. - : IEEE Computer Society. - 9780769545257 ; , s. 5011-5022, s. 5011-5022
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Business-IT alignment (BITA) has gained attention during the past few years. As a result, a number of theoretical models that can be applied as supportive tools for assessing different components of BITA have been developed. However, most of these efforts have been produced either in Anglo-Saxon Countries or rooted in the experiences gained from these countries. Consequently, they ignore the factor that is subjected to change due to difference in cultural contexts. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of organizational culture on achieving BITA and influences its maturity. The research method and process that was followed, namely an in-depth literature survey followed by an empirical study of 51 Swedish multinational organizations.
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- El-Mekawy, Mohamed, et al.
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From Theory to Practice : Barriers to Business-IT Alignment in Organizations Acting in Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. - : IEEE Computer Society. - 9781479973675 ; , s. 4523-4533
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In research, many barriers to BITA are presented based on different theoretical frameworks. However, these barriers are studied either from a pure theoretical perspective or with limited empirical scope. This consequently hinders the achievement of BITA in organizations. In this paper the practitioners view of barriers to BITA are investigated aiming at producing a list of barriers which practitioners can use as a ground for better achievement of BITA. The list of barriers was identified by conducting two in-depth case studies on multinational organizations acting in Sweden along with two focused group discussions of researchers, and followed by a survey on 74 large and medium sized organizations on the Swedish market. The result of this study is a list of 45 barriers to BITA from the perspectives of business and IT practitioners.
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