In the era of knowledge economy, the necessity of recognizing knowledge as a key and intangible asset makes the effective management of knowledge a priority. Business strategy is the most important context for guiding effective knowledge management. And, knowledge management (KM) is also a dimension of business competitive strategy. Based on Miles and Snow’s (1978) business strategy typology, a...

Background and aims: Business-IT Alignment Evaluation is One of the most important issues that managers should monitor and make decisions about it .Dashboard software combines data and graphical indicators to deliver at-a-glance summaries of information for users to view the state of their business and quickly respond. The aim of this study was to design a dashboard to assess the business-IT al...

Investments in information technology will only yield dividends whenever technological spending complements corporate objectives, a phenomenon termed as business-IT alignment within extant literature. Synthesizing extant literature on business-IT alignment and organizational change, this paper argues for effective change management as a means for organizations to realize business-IT alignment. ...

IS/business alignment is an ongoing concern for both IS and other senior managers. Although it is often seen as a progression towards alignment, then full integration, of IS plans and business plans there is increasing evidence that the social dimension of alignment, or IS/business integration, is an equally important aspect. So far there has been no overriding theory for the social dimension o...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) researchers have been examining the social or relational aspects of ICT-business alignment for over twenty years. This research has examined not only the barriers to alignment, but also has suggested tangible ways to achieve relational ICTbusiness alignment. The research outlined in the paper briefly examines this research and outlines a study that...

IS/IT strategies usually depend on a business strategy. The alignment between both strategies improves these strategic plans. Business and IS/IT alignment is the degree to which the strategy of IS / IT supports and is supported by the business strategy. This paper review the strategic alignment between business and IS/IT and propose to use enterprise engineering to achieve this alignment. Enter...

Aligning information technology (IT) strategy with business strategy has been one of the top concerns of practitioners and scholars for decades. Although numerous studies have documented the positive effects of IT-business alignment on organizational performance, few considered the contextual factors that may influence the relationship. This study attempts to fulfill this gap by investigating t...

There has been increasing attention in IS literature around the technology-business relationship and the concept of social alignment. However, little attention has been given to how or why social alignment should be developed. Further examining the concept this paper explores the development of social alignment within an innovation context. Using canonical action research the study is based wit...

Business and IT alignment is increasingly acknowledged as a key for organisational performance. However, alignment research lack to mechanisms that enable for on-going process with multi-level effects. Multi-level learning allows on-going effectiveness through development of the organisation and improved quality of business and IT strategies. In particular, exploration and exploitation enable e...

Aligning business and IT strategy is a prominent area of concern. Organizations that successfully align their business strategy and their IT strategy, outperform their non-aligned peers (Chan et al., 1997). This paper explores the relationship between business strategy, IT strategy and alignment capability. We found that each business strategy can be supported by all IT strategies, but that cer...