Software for business and the principle of alignment

At this point of the book, it should already be quite clear, but it does not harm us to recall that we are only talking about professional information systems. In short, we put ourselves in a case where software really means business: applications that are mission-critical for companies, information systems that help production for a commercial company or a non-profit organization, etc. All recommendations that follow would not make any sense on small systems and would be way too complicated if applied to a simple piece of software application.

This being said, the hypothesis is that, since there is a business, there is good knowledge of it; we know who the participants in the business are, what the stakes and objectives of the business are, which strategy is being conducted (even if it is not 100% clearly defined, as happens in a lot of companies), etc. This last one is of utmost importance; there is no need to design an information...