Investment in information technology (IT) infrastructure has in recent years become a strategic organizational choice. Yet, there exists little understanding of the organizational factors that determine IT infrastructure capabilities and investment requirements. Using a filed survey of both business and IT executives, this study tests a research model that links a set of organizational factors ...

Investment in information technology (IT) infrastructure has in recent years become a strategic organizational choice. Yet, there exists little understanding of the organizational factors that determine IT infrastructure capabilities and investment requirements. Using a filed survey of both business and IT executives, this study tests a research model that links a set of organizational factors ...

This article looks at the relationship between the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and organizations agility requirements. The concept of IT infrastructure agility has captured the attention of researchers and practitioners. Although the importance of IT infrastructure agility has been established, the development of a valid, reliable instrument to measure this construct has not been...

The objective of this empirical study is to find ways that best support business performance through the alignment of organizational and technological infrastructures. Adapting Tapscott and Caston's infrastructure themes, the organizational infrastructure includes components such as common vision, cooperation, empowerment, adaptability and learning, and the technological infrastructure addresse...

There is a growing usage of business intelligence (BI) for better management decisions in different industries. However, empirical studies on BI are still scarce. In this research we study BI from an organizational agility perspective. Organizational agility is the ability to sense and respond to market opportunities and threats with speed and BI can help the sensing part of organizational agil...

In this contribution we investigate how results from the ongoing discussion about ‘eInfrastructures’ can be used to improve the design of IT infrastructures in organizations. We first establish a perspective on organizational IT as ‘work infrastructure’ that focuses on the infrastructural nature of organizational Information Systems and describe challenges for designing within and for this type...

This paper presents a case study of critical infrastructure protection in the Dutch financial sector. The organizational structures are examined to discern the roles and functions that facilitate public-private cooperation. An assessment of the organizational structures is provided along with a description of how key organizations are identified. Finally, a basic model is presented that can be ...

3 This paper presents a case study of successful ERP implementation in two phases. The second phase included significant efforts to align the business strategy and organizational structure along with the information system components. These efforts enabled the organization to complete its alignment cycle by integrating its IT infrastructure and processes with the organizational infrastructure a...