De Vries, MVan der Merwe, AGerber, AKotzé, Paula2010-11-192010-11-192010-10De Vries, M, Van der Merwe, A, Gerber, A and Kotze, P. 2010. Refining the operating model concept to enable systematic growth in operating maturity. Sustaining South Africa's Global Competitiveness after 2010: 24 Annual SAIIE Conference, Muldersdrift, 6-8 October 2010, pp 32-46978-0-86970-686-2http://www.saiie.co.za/ocs/index.php/saiie/SAIIE10/paper/view/90/69http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4572Sustaining South Africa's Global Competitiveness after 2010: 24 Annual SAIIE Conference, Muldersdrift, 6-8 October 2010To stay competitive, enterprises of today need to rely on a sound foundation for execution that incorporates the infrastructure and digitised processes for automating a company’s core capabilities. Once this foundation has been established, management could move their attention away from focusing on lower-value activities to innovative ways to increase profits and growth. The Business-IT Alignment Framework (BIAF) defines business-IT alignment in terms of a paradigm of alignment, three dimensions for alignment, and mechanisms and practices. The BIAF could provide a business-IT alignment perspective on the foundation for execution approach. Using the BIAF perspective, this paper comments on some of the deficiencies related to the foundation for execution approach regarding the systematic identification of opportunities for enterprise-wide process standardisation. The goal is to define a list of requirements that should direct the design of appropriate mechanisms and practices to address the identification of process re-use opportunities for multiple levels of operating maturity.enBusiness-IT Alignment FrameworkOperating model conceptSouth Africa's Global Competitiveness after 2010Conference PresentationDe Vries, M., Van der Merwe, A., Gerber, A., & Kotzé, P. (2010). Refining the operating model concept to enable systematic growth in operating maturity. South African Institute of Industrial Engineering. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4572De Vries, M, A Van der Merwe, A Gerber, and Paula Kotzé. "Refining the operating model concept to enable systematic growth in operating maturity." (2010): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4572De Vries M, Van der Merwe A, Gerber A, Kotzé P, Refining the operating model concept to enable systematic growth in operating maturity; South African Institute of Industrial Engineering; 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4572 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - De Vries, M AU - Van der Merwe, A AU - Gerber, A AU - Kotzé, Paula AB - To stay competitive, enterprises of today need to rely on a sound foundation for execution that incorporates the infrastructure and digitised processes for automating a company’s core capabilities. Once this foundation has been established, management could move their attention away from focusing on lower-value activities to innovative ways to increase profits and growth. The Business-IT Alignment Framework (BIAF) defines business-IT alignment in terms of a paradigm of alignment, three dimensions for alignment, and mechanisms and practices. The BIAF could provide a business-IT alignment perspective on the foundation for execution approach. Using the BIAF perspective, this paper comments on some of the deficiencies related to the foundation for execution approach regarding the systematic identification of opportunities for enterprise-wide process standardisation. The goal is to define a list of requirements that should direct the design of appropriate mechanisms and practices to address the identification of process re-use opportunities for multiple levels of operating maturity. DA - 2010-10 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Business-IT Alignment Framework KW - Operating model concept KW - South Africa's Global Competitiveness after 2010 LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2010 SM - 978-0-86970-686-2 T1 - Refining the operating model concept to enable systematic growth in operating maturity TI - Refining the operating model concept to enable systematic growth in operating maturity UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4572 ER -