This lecture will provide a brief introduction to the masterclass. It will introduce the problem related to business-IT alignment and give a sneak preview of the framework that is developed during this masterclass.

This lecture details the structure of this masterclass and provides a brief overview of the framework that is introduced in the following lectures.

By finishing this lecture you understand what Business Outcomes are, how these are different from projects and why these are important to the business

In this lecture you'll learn the importance of identifying and involving the right stakeholders, both from the business and the IT side of the organization. This lecture explains what strategy is, which value strategies are common, and it goes into a strtegy development process. At the end of this lecture you know how to develop a strategy and you have learned about competitive advantages.

At the end of this lecture you have learned about several strategy models and how these can be used for developing strategy and for defining competitive advantage.

Your IT-strategy must be aligned to your business strategy. Nevertheless, this leaves lots of strategies to choose from. In this lecture you will be introduced to several IT-strategies and you will learn that although you must be concious of trends in IT, you should not let trends dictate strategy.

Capabilities form the building blocks of a business. This lecture provides a definition of a business capability and gives detailed information about which pitfalls to avoid when defining business capabilities.

At the end of this lecture you have clear insight in what business capabilities are and a capability map is provided to provide insight in how capabilities are positioned within an organization.

In this lecture you'll learn the definition of an IT-capability. Further, you will see which three components comproses an IT-capability. At the end of this lecture you will get practical examples of IT-capabilities.

At the end of this lecture you will have gained an understanding of how to decide on which business priorities to start working on.

This lecture teaches you how to use Excel to create a matrix in which business priorities can be mapped to IT-capabilities, which in turn are mapped to IT-solutions.

Learn how a matrix can efficiently be used to map current capabilities to desired capabilities and how this can be used to perform GAP-analysis.

In this lecture you will learn how to answer questions from the business about when certain IT-capabilities will be implemented. By using the value-versus-complexity matrix presented in this lecture you are well prepared to counter any of these questions.

At the end of this lecture you know what the definition of a roadmap is and you will be presented with how a roadmap could look like. Additionally, attached to this lecture is a dynamic roadmap for you to download, which you can directly use for your own projects.

In this lecture you will get acquainted with 'TOGAF' which provides a framework for Enterprise Architecture.

As you're approaching the end of this masterclass, all important aspects and presented models are summarized.