1. 1 VITAL: Value-Based IT Alignment An Introduction to the project Pascal van Eck “Architectuur in een genetwerkte wereld”, NGI Regio Den Haag, September 28, 2005

2. 2 How it all started Jaap Gordijn (VU): e 3 -value: e-commerce business models based on economic value Roel Wieringa (UT): GRAAL: case-study based research on business/IT alignment in large organizations

3. 3 VITAL: Value-Based IT ALignment Three parts: –VITAL/services: focus on service specification –VITAL/design: focus on architecture –VITAL/maturity: focus on implementation Economic value-based approach to alignment in networked businesses “IT investment decisions just like any other investment decision”

4. 4 IT alignment & service provisioning

5. 5 Who’s who in VITAL? From left to right: Jaap Gordijn, Hans Akkermans, Roel Wieringa, Pascal van Eck Ph.D.s: Zsofia Derzsi, Sybren de Kinderen, Novica Zarvic, Roberto Santana Tapia Others: Yao-Hua Tan (VU), Maya Daneva (UT)

6. 6 Participating companies AtosOrigin Cap Gemini CIBIT/SERC Cisco Systems Deloitte Gartner GetronicsPinkRoccade HP ICTU KPN Labyrint Mitopics OrangeWing Consulting Ordina Sogeti Twynstra Work Innovation Unisys http://www.vital-project.org/

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8. 8 Pascal van Eck Department of Computer Science University of Twente P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands Email: vaneck@cs.utwente.nl http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~patveck