Business strategies are vital for an organisation in the dynamic business environment today. However, most organisations are still facing issues in effectively executing the business strategies. The misalignment of operational factors such people, business operations, and IT systems, is one major problem that hinders the best performance of an organisation and degrades the value of business str...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Both information technology (IT) and business leaders are continually looking for management practices to help them align their IT and business strategies. Alignment seems to grow in importance as companies strive to link IT and business in light of dynamic business strategies and continuously evolving technologies. Importance aside, what is not clear is how to achieve and sus...

The challenges associated with achieving a better fit between an organization’s information technology (IT) strategy and its business strategy – most commonly known as “IT-business alignment” – have earned this issue a place as an IT management perennial top ten concern for organizational executives. Not surprisingly, the problems associated with attaining higher levels of IT-business alignment...

Strategic IT business alignment deals with the capability of IT to both shape and support business strategy. It can be interpreted as an organizational learning process that combines business and IT knowledge to support business objectives and can positively affect organizational profitability by creating superior strategies that achieve a competitive advantage. These strategies have to be impl...

Strategic alignment focuses on the activities that management performs to achieve cohesive goals across the IT (Information Technology) and other functional organizations (e.g., finance, marketing, H/R, manufacturing). Therefore, alignment addresses both how IT is in harmony with the business, and how the business should, or could be in harmony with IT. Alignment evolves into a relationship whe...

IT business alignment is widely acknowledged as an important driver for effectively applying information systems in a business context and for increasing the performance of the supported business process. But how does this structural integration of enterprise systems and business processes change when firms outsource the provision of their IT? We empirically compare how the value impact of stru...

Present commercial software packages (such as ERP) have incorporated management insights, industry solutions, and best-practices to facilitate IT-business alignment. However, poor alignment of IT-business still exists on a large scale in practice. In this study, we investigate the notion of IT-business alignment from a managerial perspective and argue that, in addition to the four well-studied ...

All organisations have to keep improving different aspects of their business in order to survive in their business area. This improvement can be done in different ways, including as business and IT alignment. There exist different ways of performing business and IT alignment, such as applying EMMs. Enterprise Modelling (EM) is an area that has been built up with the intention of improving busin...