ATIS: A method for the complete alignment of technical information systems

Nowadays, the industrial and technological context is characterised by the uncertainty and the complexity of its evolutions. In this boarder, companies, particularly in the manufacturing and product design fields, need flexible and adaptable Information Systems (IS) to support their business strategies as well as to facilitate their adaptation to the evolutions of the external environment. In these fields, the so called technical IS enables the integration between the infrastructures, the support of design and production management activities. To address these specific requirements the “classical” alignment of the technical IS, with the organisation's strategy has to be completed with the alignments with its environment and uncertain evolutions. Thus, in order to support complete alignment of Technical IS we propose in this paper a method that couples an extension of the Strategic Alignment Model (E-SAM) to the Multi-Screen Model. Then, in order to operationalise the use of these models, four phases are suggested.