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services to the application needs of business processes. As yet, there are no compre-
hensive guidelines that will assist the practicing architect in aligning architectures at
all levels. ere are no “operationalization” of strategic alignment models.
Maes (2000) proposes an alignment model that downplays the importance
Henderson and Venkatraman attribute to technology itself. In their framework,
the internal level of the strategic fit dimension is split into two levels: structure and
operation. is is motivated by the fact that the structure of the operational pro-
cesses has to be determined first before they can be executed. ese two activities
occur and are managed in different ways. In the functional integ ...