Enterprise architecture enables strategic alignment through creation of a unified business and IS view of the target state of the business. Using a design science approach, this paper proposes an intent-based technique as an extension to existing modeling techniques for strategic alignment. The proposed approach defines a reference architecture of enterprise intent that includes vocabulary, rul...

Companies which operate multiple marketing channels face the challenge of properly aligning channel strategies and operations. The case of a large multinational corporation is used to describe the complex and situated nature of multi channel strategies. The case context is used to introduce a framework and a reference process for achieving channel alignment in strategic business units. We build...

Aligning information systems (IS) to businesses has recently become a top-level concern in organizations. Several activities can be undertaken to deal with strategic alignment: elaboration of key indicators, target definition, monitoring, analysis, impact propagation etc. Working on strategic alignment, or correspondence between business and IS, requires to represent and document these two elem...

Alignment has been considered as a multi-dimension concept such as strategic alignment and social alignment. Besides, alignment is also recognized as a dynamic concept, which means it is always an ongoing process. Drawing on these two perspectives, we suggest that alignment could be achieved by various implementations, including IT strategy-driven implementation and business-driven implementati...

In this article, we introduce a framework that can be used by organizations as a positioning instrument to think of business-ICT alignment decisions in light of the strategic importance of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in their organization. We make a distinction between organizations where ICT is of high strategic importance and those where ICT is of low strategic importance. ...

Although the information systems (IS) literature often suggests that there is a need to align IS strategy with business strategy, the benefits of IS strategic alignment are difficult to determine. This paper describes a configurational model of IS strategic alignment that evaluates not only the internal consistency between IS strategy and business strategy but also contingency approaches to man...

Despite numerous efforts to integrate business and IS strategic plans, organisations are not delivering the expected benefits from IS investment. IS alignment research has recognised that IS alignment at strategic level is not sufficient and therefore a continue process of reconciliation between strategy formulation and strategy implementation is required. Strategy implementation is realised th...

AbstrAct Achieving IT-business alignment has been a long-standing, critical, information management issue. A theoretical framework of the maturity levels of management practices and strategic IT choices that facilitate alignment was empirically tested and validated. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) validated 6 factors and identified 22 indices to measure strategic alignment maturity. A mixed ...

Strategic alignment between business and information technology (IT) is considered key to maximizing IT impact. Nonetheless, only seldom have exceptional achievements in performance been studied from the viewpoint of the Strategic Alignment Model (SAM). This paper describes a longitudinal case study of a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), named here MHMO, which serves over 1.7 million membe...

Literature about IS strategic management or IS strategic value is abundant. Nonetheless, the bulk of existing studies are focused on the concept of alignment. They do not make sense of a strategic value "in practice" and still draw on notions such as activity or process to make sense of alignment. By means of a practice-based view of technology, three praxis are suggested here for the modeling ...