Business process extraction for information technology/business alignment

Structuring a good working relationship between business and information technology (IT) is synonymous with structuring good alignment. Alignment refers to the degree of fit between business and IT to reach a common business goal. However, it has long been accepted that establishing strong alignment is a complex task due to a lack of information on how organizational components and their included activities can be extracted. Organizations consist of several components such as model, strategy, operations, processes etc. Processes in business operations are stable key elements which need to be well managed and fit optimally with the proposed business strategy and other related organizational activities. In this paper, we present a method of Business Process Extraction (BPE) at an early stage of development of the information systems (IS).