In order to successfully govern an enterprise, business and information technology must be aligned. With proper alignment comes many benefits, including improved risk mitigation and more effective use of IT resources. Undoubtedly, the challenge and complexity of this endeavour is enormous and has previously been addressed in research literature and by practitioners. The Strategic Alignment Matu...

This paper reports on a study to determine whether there are any signi®cant differences in perspectives of IT and business managers on what factors contribute to successful strategic alignment using Henderson and Venkatraman's strategic alignment model as its framework. A general survey was undertaken over a range of industries and results indicated that the two perspectives were largely equiva...

In this paper we present results of an empirical study based on the opinions of 220 senior IT managers in the USA on critical success factors in the strategic use of IT. Our results show that competitive business strategies together with the competence of senior IT executives play the most important role in creating the strategic value of IT in organizations. The other critical factors were hum...

beside developing strategies, success of organizations depends on alignment of strategies. one of the important functional areas in which companies develop strategies is operation. alignment of operation strategies is called horizontal alignment. the aim of this article is to present a model for alignment of operation strategies. to this end, an original algorithm has been presented by which ho...

Des approches traditionnelles a l’alignement stratégique ont été critiquées parce qu’elles soulignent l’hiérarchie et le rationalisme. Ces approches ont eu comme conséquence les théories et les modèles conceptuels qui ne s’appliquent pas bien aux situations réelles qu’on rencontre dans les enterprises. Ce papier de recherche en cours offre une nouvelle perspective sur l’alignement stratégique q...

Aligning information systems with organizational processes, goals and strategies is becoming increasingly important. Prior research has identified two dimensions of strategic alignment the social and intellectual. The former focuses primarily on the people involved in achieving alignment, whilsrihe latter is more likely to be associated with the investigation oj plans and planning methodologies...