The alignment of business and information technology (IT) strategies is an important and enduring theoretical challenge for the information systems discipline, remaining a top issue in practice for the past twenty years. Multi-business organizations (MBOs), present a particular alignment challenge, where business strategies are developed at both the corporate level and within individual strateg...

The importance of alignment between information systems and the business has been referred to in both the practitioner literature and in academic research for some years. A number of rigorous studies have ascertained the relevance of IS-business alignment as an important matter. The alignment of information systems with other business functions – such as the marketing function – has been allude...

There is a general consensus among practitioners and researchers alike that IT business alignment improves business performance. Typically, alignment is analyzed at a strategic level. Yet, it has to be implemented in daily operations to be effective. Therefore, in this paper we introduce the concept of operational IT business alignment, reflecting the functional integration at the structural le...

This study utilizes a mixed method approach to examine the relationship between IS/Business alignment practices and organizational choice of IS/business alignment strategy. To this end, the significance of six maturity factors of IS/Business alignment – governance, partnership, scope and architecture, communication, value, and skills – from the Strategic Alignment Maturity model are examined ag...

This paper presents first results of a study in which the perceptions of business and IT executives are compared regarding the maturity level of business and IT alignment and the business value of IT. The alignment of business and IT is investigated as alignment processes and structures. The business value of IT is examined with a multidimensional framework, which includes both the realized bus...

Considering the dynamic nature of ICT and its contribution to business growth and prospects which later translate to national development and prosperity, the aim of this research was threefold; study and examine ICT-business alignment cases in Zimbabwe, establish the current state of ICT-business alignment in the Zimbabwean business sector, and determine factors that have a propelling or fricti...

Alignment between business and information technology (IT) has been a top priority for academics and business managers over the past decades because it is believed to create competitive advantage for the organization. However, alignment is not an easy task. In this paper, we present a qualitative case study where three alignment models are used to examine what kinds of explanations they give ab...

Although strategic alignment is an important theoretical concept, and achieving alignment or fit among organizational elements would seem to be an important business objective, empirical demonstrations of the importance of alignment have been uncommon (White 1986). This study attempted to provide an empirical assessment of the nature and importance of information systems strategic alignlnent Th...

according to research, over seventy percent of change efforts have been failed to achieve the expected goals. there are many reasons for the failure of change implementation, however, at the strategic and macro level, the non-alignment between business strategy and change variations may lead to the failure of change efforts. in this paper, the alignment between business strategy and change vari...

The literature suggests that business-IT alignment is an important antecedent of IS success, business process performance, and competitive advantage. Additionally, IT governance practices are highlighted as being instrumental to fostering business-IT alignment. In this paper, we derive various IT governance practices (in terms of structures, processes, relational mechanisms, and enterprise arch...