IT Alignment game
ICT & Software Engineering
Client company:Atos
Simone Geurtz
Kristian Savov
Petar Parpov
Emilian Alexandru
Naresh Rai
Project description
The game has been undertaken to tackle the widespread issue of an enterprise architecture, where IT systems are not aligning with business needs, leading to higher IT costs and decreased business efficiency. Its objective is to offer management teams a way to visualize their current business model and IT landscape and make informed decisions, together with the enterprise architects, on how to optimize their IT costs and bring their IT systems in line with their business needs.
This game provides value to the company by giving management teams a tool to help them make strategic choices about their business and IT systems, resulting in lower IT costs and improved business performance. The online simulation game offers the ability to visualize the business model, host online workshops, and make data-driven decisions about changes to the business and IT systems.
The end goal of our project is to deliver a fully functional online game that empowers management teams to align their IT systems with their business needs and improve their overall efficiency.
Context
The project will be carried out for Atos. Atos is a worldwide digital leader with an annual revenue of 11 billion. They have over 112,000 employees spread across 71 countries. They are the European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and high-performance computing.
The assignment is about aligning IT systems with business needs. Often there is a mismatch between those two. And if this is the case, it will cost more than needed. Within this project, there will be looked at the IT alignment game developed by Hans van Drunen. With this game, you can find out what the personal colour, group colour and operating model are from a certain company. Currently, this game can be played offline with real life cards. The first round of the game has been implemented in an online environment, but it is preferable to have the full game online.
Results
The results is an online game. In this game the gamemaster can create and start a game. Players can join and play all rounds. The gamemaster as well as the players can view the results of the first two rounds. Moreover, the team has worked on deploying the game to a server.