In VITAL, we investigate an economic value-based approach to alignment in networked businesses. The project consists of three parts. All three parts build upon work in value-based requirements engineering and on ICT architecture design research done in the GRAAL program.

• VITAL/services. We will develop techniques to describe ICT services as economic value objects from a consumer (i.e. business) perspective and investigate ways to match these services in a value-oriented way with ICT services described from a supplier (i.e. ICT) perspective.

• VITAL/design. We will develop techniques to design networked ICT architecture that supports services required by the business, taking the value offered by those services, and the costs incurred by the architecture, into account.

• VITAL/maturity. We will develop models of decision processes about ICT services and their architecture, and develop maturity models of those processes.

In all three subprojects we do case study research and action research. All three VITAL projects will start in 2005 and have a duration of four years.

VITAL is a cooperation between the Information Systems Group of the University of Twente and the Business Informatics Section of the Free University of Amsterdam.

VITAL is sponsored by the Jacquard program of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO.

2009

Zsofia Derzsi, Yao-Hua Tan and Jaap Gordijn. A Model-based Approach to Aid the Development of e-Government Projects in Real-life Setting Focusing on Stakeholder Value. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2009. Abstract Accepted by HICSS 2009.

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2008

Vincent Pijpers, Jaap Gordijn and Hans Akkermans. Aligning Information System Design and Business strategy - A Starting Internet Company. In Janis Stirna and Anne Persson editors, The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: Proceedigs of the First IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference PoEM 2008, Pages 47-61, Springer, 2008. Abstract Jaap Gordijn, Sybren Kinderen, de, Vincent Pijpers and Hans Akkermans. E-Services in a Networked World: From Semantics to Pragmatics. In Proceedings of FIS 2008, 2008. Abstract Accepted by FIS 2008. Sybren Kinderen, de and Jaap Gordijn. Reasoning About Substitute Choices And Preference Ordering in e-Services. In Zohra Bellahsène and Michel Léonard editors, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Vol. 5074:390-404 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin (D), 2008. Abstract Sybren Kinderen, de and Jaap Gordijn. E3service A structured methodology for generating needs driven ITservice bundles in a networked enterprise. Technical report, 2008. Abstract Roel Wieringa, Vincent Pijpers, Lianne Bodenstaff and Jaap Gordijn. Value-driven coordination process design using physical delivery models. 2008. Abstract Accepted by ER '08. Jaap Gordijn, Sybren Kinderen, de and Roel Wieringa. Value-Driven Service Matching. 2008. Accepted by RE '08. Sybren Kinderen, de and Jaap Gordijn. E3service: A model-based approach for generating needs-driven e-service bundles in a networked enterprise. 2008. Abstract Accepted by ECIS 2008. Zsofia Derzsi, Jaap Gordijn and Yao-Hua Tan. Towards model-based assessment of business-IT alignment in e-service networks from multiple perspectives. 2008. Abstract Accepted by ECIS 2008. Sybren Kinderen, de and Jaap Gordijn. E3service : An ontological approach for deriving multi-supplier IT-service bundles from consumer needs. 2008. Abstract Accepted by HICSS 2008. Best paper nomination. Zsofia Derzsi, Jaap Gordijn and Koen Kok. Multi-perspective Assessment of Scalability of IT-enabled Networked Constellations. 2008. Abstract Accepted by HICSS 2008. Koen Kok, Zsofia Derzsi, Jaap Gordijn, Maarten Hommelberg, Cor Warmer, Rene Kamphuis and Hans Akkermans. Agent-based Electricity Balancing with Distributed Energy Resources, A Multiperspective Case Study. 2008. Abstract Accepted by HICSS 2008.

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2007

Sybren Kinderen, de and Jaap Gordijn. A Consumer Needs-Driven Approach for Finding IT-Service Bundles. Technical report, 2007. Abstract Zsofia Derzsi and Jaap Gordijn. Towards a Multi-perspective Assessment of Scalability of Distributed IT Services. In Barbara Pernici and Jon Atle Gulla editors, Proceedings of the Workshops and Doctoral Consortium, 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Vol. 1:445-452, Tapir Academic Press, Trondheim, Norway, 2007. Abstract Zsofia Derzsi, Jaap Gordijn, Koen Kok, Hans Akkermans and Yao-Hua Tan. Assessing Feasibility of IT-enabled Networked Value Constellations: A Case Study in the Electricity Sector. In John Krogstie, Andreas Opdahl and Guttorm Sindre editors, 19th International Conference, CAiSE 2007, Trondheim, Norway, June 2007, Proceedings, Vol. 4495:66-80 of LNCS, Springer Verlag, 2007. Abstract

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2006

Zsofia Derzsi and Jaap Gordijn. A Framework for Business/IT Alignment in Networked Value Constellations. In Tibout Latour and Michael Petit editors, Proceedings of the workshops of the 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2006), Pages 219-226, Namur University Press, Namur, B, 2006. Abstract Sybren Kinderen, de and Jaap Gordijn. Matching Complex Consumer Needs with e-Service Bundles. In P. Walden, M. Lynne Markus, J. Gricar and G. Lenart editors, Proceedings of the 19th BLED conference (eValues), Pages cdrom, University of Maribor, Maribor, SL, 2006. Abstract

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2005

Zsofia Derzsi and Jaap Gordijn. Value-Based Business-ICT Alignment: A Case Study of the Mobile Industry. In Proceedings of the 12th Research Symposium on Emerging Electronic Markets (RSEEM), Pages 83-95, VU, Amsterdam, (NL), 2005. Abstract

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