StrategicBusinessand Information TechnologyAlignment(SBITA) has been linked to enterprise performance improvement.Anumber of attempts have been made to define the SBITA, severalrepresentationson whatbusinessandITalignmentare available in academic and practitioners field. This paper providesaframeworkfor SBITA based onaconsolidation of relatedliterature. This paper uses the Extended Influence Diagram notation (EID) andamethod for knowledge elicitation from scientific texts in order to construct suchconsolidatedSBITAframework. The EID is use asamean for presenting and comparing theories and models from existingliteratureand has been expanded for consolidation of such theories and models. TheconsolidatedSBITAframeworkillustrates key aspects of the most relevant theories and models forStrategicBusinessandITAlignmentaccording to the criteria presented in this paper.
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