Aligning Information Technology (IT) and business has been a persistent and pervasive problem for over three decades. Studies show that one of the essential components for organizations seeking to improve their alignment maturity is IT Governance. This paper demonstrates the relationship between IT Governance and business performance. The Strategic Alignment Maturity Assessment (SAM) framework ...

the advent of new information technology has radically changed the end-user computing environment over the past decade. to enhance their management decision-making capability, many organizations have made significant investments in business intelligence (bi) systems. in order to achieve increased and sustainable business results, organizations need to use suitable strategy to engage personnel. ...

eGovernment has been defined as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled route to good governance. eGovernment is an evolutionary path that its effective implementation requires a complete understanding of constituting elements and at the same time taking a holistic view to stay focused on its overall objectives. This paper introduces a new heuristic model that could be used to me...

High investments needed by Information Technology (IT) require accuracy and alignment with organizational strategies as well as responsibility from all areas of the organization. This scenario brought importance to Information Technology Governance (ITG) in public and private organizations management in recent years. This research used secondary data from Sao Paulo State Departments and used fa...

Every organization requires data and information to run its business and support decision making. These data and information can be obtained from many sources, internal or external organization. Wherever they come from, data and information should be free from any errors and defects to make the business run well and the decision taken from them qualified. Assuring data and information quality i...

In this exploratory study, we seek to help explain and predict the success of mobile in−formation systems based on a research model that joins key elements of the theory of task−technology fit and the technology acceptance model. To account for idiosyncrasies of the mobile technology artifact, as exemplified by mobile e−mail, we include user mobil−ity and user−perceived technology maturity in o...

Electronic business provides many benefits to organizations that embrace on it. It is true that ebusiness improve business processes, integrate business processes and its corresponding value chain, give speed to internal and external organizational activities etc, but it poses the greatest challenge to today’s organizations to transform their traditional businesses into electronic business. To ...