Analysing strategic misalignment in public administration

Abstract

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.