16th Workshop on Business and IT Alignment (BITA 2026)
in conjunction with 25th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2026
A contemporary challenge for enterprises is to keep up with the pace of changing business demands imposed on them in different ways. Today, there is an obvious demand for continuous improvement and alignment in enterprises, but unfortunately, many organizations don’t have proper instruments (methods, tools, patterns, best practices, etc.) to achieve this. Enterprise modeling, enterprise architecture, and business process management are three areas within the business informatics tradition that aim to improve business practices and business and IT alignment (BITA). BITA is often manifested through the transition of taking an enterprise from one state (AS-IS) into another improved state (TO-BE), i.e., a transformation of the enterprise and its supporting IT into something that is regarded as better.
Recent developments within artificial intelligence, digitalization and digital transformation have brought new dimensions to BITA where BITA becomes an important issue in relation to digital business models, smart products and smart business ecosystems. A continuous challenge with BITA is to move beyond a narrow focus on one tradition or technology. There is a need to be able to deal with multi-dimensions (multi-disciplines) of the enterprise to create alignment between business and IT. Examples of such dimensions are organizational structures, strategies, competencies, architectures, business models, work practices, processes, and IS/IT structures. IT governance is also a dimension that traditionally has had a strong impact on BITA.
This workshop aims to bring together people who have an interest in BITA. We invite researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia to submit original results of their completed or ongoing projects. We encourage to a broad understanding of possible approaches and solutions for BITA. Specific focus is on practices of business and IT alignment, i.e. we have encouraged submission of case study and experiences papers.
Workshop Topics
- Artificial intelligence techniques and solutions supporting BITA
- Business and IT alignment and circular economy
- Business and IT alignment and smart enterprises
- Best practice business and IT alignment case studies
- Business and IT alignment in small and medium sized enterprises
- Business and IT alignment discovery, change and improvement - methodologies and best practices
- Business and IT alignment and cybersecurity
- Business and IT alignment and digital product passport
- Business and IT alignment and digital transformation
- Business and IT alignment and smart connected products
- Business and IT alignment through BPM
- Business value of business and IT alignment
- Challenges in business and IT alignment
- Critical success factors and associated KPIs´ for alignment initiatives
- Design thinking in business and alignment
- Enterprise architecture management (EAM) for business and IT alignment
- Enterprise modelling as a tool for business and IT alignment
- Experience reports and case studies
- Human aspects of business and IT alignment; organizational staffing and structure, change management and leadership strategies
- Integration of human expertise and Intelligent Information Systems for BITA
- IT governance as a mean for alignment
- Metrics associated with the alignment life cycle, re-design, implementation, management and improvement
- Organisational implementations of various levels of business and IT alignment approaches
- Practices of business and IT alignment
Important Dates
- Paper submission: August 16, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2026
- Workshop date: October 7, 2026
- Camera-ready submission for post-proceedings: October 30, 2026
Submission Types
- Regular papers should be 11-15 pages long, including figures, tables, appendices and references.
- Short papers should be 6-10 pages long, including figures, tables, appendices and references.
Submissions to BITA 2026 must be made using the submission system EasyChair. All accepted workshop papers will be published in CEUR post-proceedings. Authors must use the one-column CEUR-ART style for the papers. The CEUR-ART styles can be found in this CEUR Zip file. A very simple is example is available here (Word).
Use of Generative AI in the development of the paper must comply with the CEUR-WS GenAI policy and must be explicitly declared at the end of the paper, as instructed at: https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html
A selection of best papers will be invited to submit paper extensions for a special issue of the Journal on Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly (CSIMQ).
October 7, 2026
Session 1 [13:30-15:00]
Matthias Pohl, Christian Haertel, Daniel Staegemann and Klaus Turowski – A Systematic Review of Cost Modeling in Enterprise Architecture with a Predictive Maintenance Application
Jasmin Jakupovic, Joel Johansson and Ulf Seigerroth – Accelerated AI Disruption: Rethinking Business-IT Alignment in the Era of AI adoption
Falk Mahlendorf and Kurt Sandkuhl – LLM in Leadership and Team Consultancy – Current Situation and Future Scenarios
Session 2 [15:30-17:00]
Ratchanee Phensri, Stella Gatziu Grivas, Denis Imhof and Lukas Jakober – Requirements for a Task-Level Quality Framework for Human- AI Collaboration in Consulting
Theodore Kindong – From Security by Design to Resilience by Design: A Design Framework for AI-Enabled Smart Grids
Anna Sumereder, Damiano Falcioni, Felix Strohmeier, Stefan Farthofer-Oster, Georg Aumayr, Johannes Gstaltmeyr and Andreas Rath – AI-enhanced alignment of emergency response processes with communication infrastructure: Investigating the AI4Emergency case
Program committee chairs
- Ulf Seigerroth, Jönköping University (Sweden) (co-chair)
- Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock (Germany) (co-chair)
Program committee (invitations in progress)
- Dominic Bork, Technical University of Vienna
- Michael Fellmann, University of Rostock
- Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg
- Fabrizio Fornari, University of Camerino
- Jānis Grabis, Riga Technical University
- Anne Gutschmidt, University of Rostock
- Björn Johansson, Linköping University
- Joakim Kävrestad, Jönköping University
- Görkem Kılınç Soylu, Jönköping University
- Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University
- Hasan Koç, Berlin International University
- Emanuele Laurenzi, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
- Michael Leyer, University of Marburg
- Andreas Martin, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
- Raimundas Matulevičius, University of Tartu
- Jack Daniel Rittelmeyerr, University of Rostock
- Janis Stirna, Stockholm University
- Vladimir Tarasov, Jönköping University
- Marcus Triller, University of Rostock
