15th Workshop on Business and IT Alignment (BITA 2025)
in conjunction with
24nd International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2025
Workshop Description
A contemporary challenge for enterprises is to keep up with the pace of changing business demands imposed on them in different ways. There is today an obvious demand for continuous improvement and alignment in enterprises but unfortunately many organizations don’t have proper instruments (methods, tools, patterns, best practices etc.) to achieve this. Enterprise modeling, enterprise architecture, and business process management are three areas belonging to business informatics traditions where the mission is to improve business practice and business and IT alignment (BITA). BITA is many times manifested through the transition of taking an enterprise from one state (AS-IS) into another improved state (TO-BE), i.e. a transformation of the enterprise and it’s supporting IT into something that is regarded as better. Recent development within digitalization and digital transformation has brought new dimensions to BITA where BITA becomes an important in relation to smart products and smart business ecosystems. A continuous challenge with BITA is to move beyond a narrow focus on one tradition or technology. There is a need to be able to deal with multi-dimensions of the enterprise in order to create alignment between business and IT. Examples of such dimensions are organizational structures, strategies, architectures, business models, work practices, processes, and IS/IT structures. IT governance is also a dimension that traditionally has had a strong impact on BITA.
This workshop aims to bring together people who have an interest in BITA. We invite researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia to submit original results of their completed or ongoing projects. We encourage to a broad understanding of possible approaches and solutions for BITA. Specific focus is on practices of business and IT alignment, i.e. we have encouraged submission of case study and experiences papers.
Topics of Interest
- Business and IT alignment and circular economy
- Business and IT alignment and smart enterprises
- Best practice business and IT alignment case studies
- Business and IT alignment in small and medium sized enterprises
- Business and IT alignment discovery, change and improvement - methodologies and best practices
- Business and IT alignment and cybersecurity
- Business and IT alignment and digital product passport
- Business and IT alignment and digital transformation
- Business and IT alignment and smart connected products
- Business and IT alignment through BPM
- Business value of business and IT alignment
- Challenges in business and IT alignment
- Critical success factors and associated KPIs´ for alignment initiatives
- Design thinking in business and alignment
- Enterprise architecture management (EAM) for business and IT alignment
- Enterprise modelling as a tool for business and IT alignment
- Experience reports and case studies
- Human aspects of business and IT alignment; organizational staffing and structure, change management and leadership strategies
- IT governance as a mean for alignment
- Metrics associated with the alignment life cycle, re-design, implementation, management and improvement
- Organisational implementations of various levels of business and IT alignment approaches
- Practices of business and IT alignment
Program Committee Chairs
Ulf Seigerroth, Jönköping University (Chair)
Kurt Sandkuhl, Rostock University (Co-chair)
Program Committee
Erik Bergström, Jönköping University
Dominic Bork, University of Vienna
Michael Fellmann, University of Rostock
Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, HAN University of Applied Sciences
Björn Johansson, Linköping University
Christina Keller, Lund University
Hasan Koç, Universität Rostock
John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Joakim Kävrestad, Jönköping University
Michael Leyer, University of Rostock
Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen
Erik Proper, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor
Nikolay Shilov, SPIIRAS
Monique Snoeck, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Alexander Smirnov, SPIIRAS
Janis Stirna, Stockholm University
Vladimir Tarasov, Jönköping University
Chiara Francescomarino, Reutlingen University
Alfred Zimmermann, Reutlingen University
Andreas Martin , University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Jens Myrup Pedersen, Aalborg University
Weslaw Wolny, University of Economics in Katowice
Important Dates
- Paper submission: July 7, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2025
- Camera-ready submission: August 18, 2025
- Workshop date: September 17, 2025
Paper submission and Proceedings
• Regular papers should be 11-15 pages long, including figures, tables, appendices and references.
• Short papers should be 6-10 pages long, including figures, tables, appendices and references.
Submissions to the workshop are done via EasyChair, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bir2025, choose the option "Workshop on Business and IT Alignment".
All accepted workshop papers will be published in CEUR proceedings. Authors must use the one-column CEUR-ART style for the papers. The CEUR-ART styles can be found at https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html , section "CEURART style files for papers".
A selection of best papers will be invited to submit paper extensions for a special issue of the Journal on Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly (CSIMQ).