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...

Aligning information technology (IT) strategy with business strategy has been one of the top concerns of practitioners and scholars for decades. Despite the documented positive effects of strategic alignment on organizational success, only a few organizations consider themselves in alignment. Although numerous studies exist about how to accomplish IT-business alignment, empirical studies based ...

When assessing the harmony between business and information systems, most of traditional studies deal with the presence and the achievement of strategic alignment. On the contrary, exiguous attention is paid to the phenomenon of strategic misalignment, which means the absence or difficulties of business-IT alignment. This paper deals with strategic misalignment between business and information ...

alignment of information technology in business increases performance and effectiveness of information technology used in organization’s business and improves goals, strategies, resources, integration, investment and other relevant factors in the business. methodologies used and aligned technology to business always was considered by firms, large and small companies and organizations. until now...

It is increasingly acknowledged that firms cannot be competitive if their business and information technology strategies are not aligned. A number of proposals have been made for achieving strategic alignment. Despite still being a major concern for business executives there is little published research that attempts to give methodological support for achieving strategic alignment in day-to-day...

While researchers have encouraged more research on the causal chains between information technology investments and Business performance, the results of empirical studies have been inconclusive. This is partly due to the exclusion of IT-business strategic alignment. This study has examined the impact of IT-business strategic alignment antecedents in terms of leadership, structure and process, s...

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...

Over the years, aligning IT and business strategies has remained an important, but sometimes elusive, challenge for executives. At the same time it has garnered quite an interest among the research community. This paper seeks to provide one explanation why alignment efforts struggle. The paper first addresses the distinction between strategies as plans and strategies as patterns in decisions an...