The crucial role of IT/business alignment for business value of IT has been investigated for more than two decades. While both the intellectual and the social dimension of alignment received considerable attention at strategic level, only few studies have provided insights into alignment at non-strategic levels. With the intellectual dimension being quite well understood, this work focuses part...

Strategic alignment between business and IT is considered critical for competitiveness. Enterprise system and business process reengineering projects are inter-related and have a major impact on strategic alignment. ERP systems are developed in multiple stakeholder ecosystems. Current literature does not provide sufficient support for this. The aim of this paper is to identify business and tech...

A request from a powerful customer to use B2B e-commerce is a significant external stimulus for a supplier. Indications from extant research that considers the determinants of EDI adoption are that when customer power is exercised, supplier benefits from B2B e-commerce are typically diminished in the short term. However, with more information becoming available to suppliers using a wider range ...

Nowadays, IT/Business strategy alignment is still a key topic of concern among managers worldwide. Change has always being considered the primary challenge affecting the strategy alignment. Planning for alignment in uncertain and dynamic changing environments is burdened with risk as organizations seek to understand how much flexibility to build in their management information system so as to m...

IT costs are the second biggest cost component in service industries, topped only by HR costs. They are steadily increasing in other industries as well. At the same time, 70% of all IT investments do not achieve their objectives due to inadequate methods in IT assessment implying bad allocation of resources. To meet the requirements of ITPM methods deduced from the main focuses of IT-Governance...

Growing competition and increasing Information Technology (IT) competence have led organizations in India to leverage IT as a strategic resource for creating competitiveness. The emerging role of IT has major implications on Strategic IS Planning (SISP) in the competitive era. The objective of the paper is to investigate the relationship between information systems planning parameters and IS pe...