Intentional Alignment and Interoperability in Inter-Organization Information Systems - Intentional Perspectives on Information Systems Engineering - page 103

Fig. 1 Interaction between
intentional and process levels

Intention To-Be

Individual intentions

Process model To-Be

Individual process models

be identified. At the intentional level, this implies the identification of goals of
the individual organizations that support each other. Thus, we have the goals of
different organizations coming together to contribute to the goals of the system
To Be .
At the second level, the process level, we must again deal with the process model
To Be and the process models of individual organizations. For alignment, it is neces-
sary that the former is in accordance with the goals of the system To Be and the latter
modified to play their respective part in the process model. For inter-operability, the
goals that interoperate must be supported by interoperability of the process models
of the individual organizations.
Now, the two-dimensional framework views alignment and interoperability
together. This is shown in Fig. 2. The intention of the inter-organizational system
To Be is I, the vertex of the pyramid of Fig. 2. The intentions of the collaborating
systems, the As Is intentions are at the base of the pyramid and are denoted by I1,
I2,

...

,I n respectively. The intention I must be satisfied by the intentions at the
base of the pyramid in order for the inter-organizational system to be well aligned.
Intentional interoperability is shown in the framework by the link between the base
intentions, I1, I2, ... ,I n .

Alignment

I

In

I1

I2

Fig. 2 The two-dimensional
framework for intentions

Interoperability