Definition and Validation of a Business IT Alignment Method for Enterprise Governance Improvement in the Context of Processes Based Organizations

These days, it is remarkable to note the growing of interest in professional responsibility. Specifically, the responsibility a person commits to when he or she performs a task. Based on a review of research currently performed in the field of policy (from corporate to technical ones), we observe that the perception of responsibility has often been limited to a combination of rights and obligations. In addition, we are seeing a re-emergence in business (for example, in the financial sector) of a belief that business ethics foundation can be improved and that a renewed focus in this area would help to prevent future breakdowns in the system. With regard to improving business/IT alignment and corporate ICT governance, it becomes increasingly important to define a commonly accepted personal responsibility model that embodies important and well-known concepts like accountability, capability and commitment. Moreover, because responsibility constitutes a fundamental notion of management theory, it is likewise identified as a meaningful bridge toward organizational artifacts. Exploiting process-based approach to define policy seems to offer new research opportunities since process-based organization becomes a continuous widely spread structure.ICT Governance, Responsibility model, Capability, Accountability, Commitment.

An Agent-based Framework for Identity Management The Unsuspected Relation with ISOIEC 15504 _ presentation

The generalization of open and distributed systems and the dynamics of the environment make Information Systems (IS) and, consequently, its access rights management an increasingly complex problem. Even if support for this activity appears to be well handed by current sophisticated solutions, the definition and the exploitation of an access rights management framework appropriately adapted for a company remain challenging. This statement is explained mainly by the continuous growth of the diversity of stakeholderspsila positions and by the criticality of the resources to protect. The SIM project, which stands for ldquoSecure Identity Managementrdquo, addresses this problem. The objectives of our paper are twofold. First, to make rights management align closer to business objectives by providing an innovative approach that focuses on business goals for defining access policy. The ISO/IEC 15504 process-based assessment model has been preferred for that research. Indeed, the structured framework that it offers for the description of activities allows for the establishment of meaningful links with responsibilities concepts. Secondly, to automate the deployment of policies through the company IT infrastructurepsilas components and devices by defining a multi-agent system architecture that provides autonomy and adaptability. Free and open source components have been used for the prototyping phase

Towards an assessment framework of reuse: A Knowledge Level Analysis Approach

The process of assessing the suitability of reuse of a software component is complex. Indeed, software systems are typically developed as an assembly of existing components. The complexity of the assessment process is due to lack of clarity on how to compare the cost of adaptation of an existing component versus the cost of developing it from scratch. Indeed, often pursuit of reuse can lead to excessive rework and adaptation, or developing suites of components that often get neglected. This paper is an important step towards modelling the complex reuse assessment process. To assess the success factors that can underpin reuse, we analyze the cognitive factors that belie developers\u27 behavior during their decision-making when attempting to reuse. This analysis is the first building block of a broader aim to synthesize a framework to institute activities during the software development lifecycle to support reuse