This study focused on the alignment of business strategy and IT strategy among 256 small UK manufacturing firms. IT alignment was explored using both the matching and moderation approaches, leading to a measure of alignment for each firm. The group of firms with high IT alignment achieved better organisational performance than firms with low IT alignment. As well as confirming prior findings in...

The procurement business function is increasingly recognized as strategic. We propose an improvement approach of the procurement function using the Procurement Alignment Framework. The framework is based on the hypothesis that the performance of the procurement business function is positively related to (1) the single maturity of five business dimensions (strategy & policy, monitoring & control...

Business analytics systems can potentially create value and provide competitive advantage to organisations. We argue that business analytics systems can also enable alignment between business strategy and IT strategy and support organisational transformation. We explain how a data warehouse, standardised metrics and global reporting supported the strategic transformation of a diversified and mu...

Most of today’s products and services are software-based. Organizations that develop software want to maintain and improve their competitiveness by controlling software-related risks. To do this, they need to align their business goals with software development strategies and translate them into quantitative project management. There is also an increasing need to justify cost and resources for ...

Many prior studies suggest that alignment between business strategy and IT strategy is a dynamic and continuous process, but few of them provide theoretic frameworks for this phenomenon. For new ventures, the alignment process involves with the process of resource reconfiguration to sustain competitive advantages in a velocity environment. Thus, in this paper we applied the dynamic capability p...

The literature argues that organizations cannot be competitive if their business and information technology strategies are not aligned. Yet achieving strategic alignment continues to be a main concern for business executives. So this research seeks to address the research problem of the lack of alignment between IT strategy and business strategy. Past studies have shown that flexibility in IT i...

An empirical study that explored business and information strategy alignment in the informationintensive and competitive Australian banking industry is featured in this paper. The aim of the study was to identify organizational practices that contribute to and enhance such alignment. Multiple sources of information were used to collect data about business and information strategies from the maj...

Business-IT alignment has been on the top of the concerns of IT executives for many years and how to assess it has been under research. Among many proposals, one of the best known and cited in the literature, showing some relevant empirical work, is the Luftman’s Strategic Alignment Maturity (SAM) categories assessment. Taking it as a framework, seven other proposals are examined using SAM cate...

Approaches for business-IT alignment assessment developed in the research community represent an increasing interest for practitioners as they offer an in-depth analysis of the business and IT systems in the organisations. In order to be used by practitioners as a regular tool, these approaches have to be validated. Our experience shows that the perception of validity in academia "in vitro" and...