TIM-8430 V2

Pachory, A. (2019). Mastering the seven dimensions of the business/technology alignment. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Read Chapter 4: The Process Paradigm.
This chapter details the relevance of various process clusters and the functions served by each. Specifically, the chapter explains the organizational inputs, processing, and outputs and how each aligns with stated goals and objectives.

Dennis, A., Wixom, B. H., & Tegarden, D. (2012). Systems analysis and design with UML (4th ed.). Wiley.
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Chapter 11 (Physical Architecture Layer Design) details how user requirements are defined, methods for gathering requirements, and best practices for documenting requirements identified in the process.

Baker, J., & Singh, H. (2019). The roots of misalignment: Insights on strategy implementation from a system dynamics perspective. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 28(4).
This essay discusses the need for strategic alignment between information technology and business and what causes drifting from a strategy of focus. A causal loop diagramming approach to better understand system dynamics is explained.

Lucidchart.com (n.d.). Getting started in Lucidchart
This tutorial explains how to use Lucid Chart.

Draw.io (n.d.). Draw.io tutorials.
This tutorial explains how to use Draw.io.

Lucidchart.com (n.d.). What is process mapping?
This tutorial explains the purpose of business process mapping and provides the steps used to create a business process map to describe the flow of a single business process.

Kiran, D. R. (2019). Production planning and control: A comprehensive approach. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Chapter 2 provides a comparison between system engineering and factory planning, with an emphasis on the conversion of data used in the input, processing, and output phases to achieve goals for the enterprise.
Chapter 4 provides an example of a production system and how each element is related to the subsystems within the environment. The planning process is detailed and the case study is useful in conceptualizing systems architecture.

Fernandez, J. L., & Hernandez, C. (2019). Practical model-based systems engineering. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Chapter 5 provides information on modeling the systems architecture based on core functions in the enterprise. Specifically, the functional flow block diagram (FFBD) and data flow diagram are discussed, and graphics provided.