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Analysing Strategic Misalignment in Public Administration

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Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia (EGOSE 2018)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 947))

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Problems concerning strategic alignment can manifest in several aspects and perspectives of an organisation. This paper presents public administration-specific organisational misalignment problems and propose a method for detecting the symptoms of the misaligned state in enterprise architecture models. The analysis follows the concept of strategic alignment perspectives, collecting typical misalignment symptoms and detection prospects along the four traditional strategic alignment perspectives. A case study in a public organisation demonstrates the usability of the proposed EAM-based misalignment assessment framework.

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Supported by the ÚNKP-17-4 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities.

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    Dóra Őri & Zoltán Szabó

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    Yuri Misnikov

  3. North-West Institute of Management, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Őri, D., Szabó, Z. (2019). Analysing Strategic Misalignment in Public Administration. In: Chugunov, A., Misnikov, Y., Roshchin, E., Trutnev, D. (eds) Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia. EGOSE 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 947. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13283-5_14

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