Thread #3A: Alignment in Reverse We have discussed the concept of 'Aligning Information Technology to an Organization's Strategy'. This is essentially more often a prescriptive goal than a reality for most organizations. However, alignment can also be considered descriptively as well: namely that an organization's critical business processes can generate (over time) an IT infrastructure(s) which (for better or worse) parallel the processes. Based on what the VTB organization did until 2010 lead to having an IT infrastructure that was such a mess (in terms of many different applications and middle ware)