Much research has been undertaken to gain insight into business alignment of IT. Thisalignment basically aims to improve a firm’s performance by an improvedharmonization of the business function and the IT function within a firm. The thesisdiscusses previous approaches and constructs an...

Social science research calls for the explorative modelling of complex problem domains. A modelling tool that aims at supporting this kind of effort has to strike the balance between offering sufficient flexibility for free exploration on the one hand and effective measures to relieve the...