...Shirley Gregor; Dennis Hart; Nigel Martin Purpose Drawing on established alignment and architectural theory, this paper seeks to present the argument that an organisation's enterprise architecture can enable the alignment of business strategy and information systems and technology...

... that are seen by the users as not sufficiently dynamic and, in many cases, continually inappropriate for their needs. The paper will draw on ateleological theory used in architectural design, as developed by Alexander (1979), to suggest some ateleological principles for information systems development...