Analysis of IT/Business Alignment Situations as a Precondition for the Design and Engineering of Situated IT/Business Alignment SolutionsShow others and affiliations
2011 (English)In: Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-44), IEEE , 2011, p. 1-9Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
IT/business alignment has constantly been among the top priorities for IT executives. From a prescriptive, design research perspective, our analysis of related work shows that neither is IT/business alignment sufficiently specified to allow systematic artifact construction, nor are existing approaches situational to reflect the diversity of IT/business alignment problems in the real world. We use goal decomposition to characterize IT/business alignment by qualities from (i) the IT systems, (ii) the business, and (iii) the IT governance perspective. A survey-based exploratory study among 174 professionals from various European countries is conducted that helps to identify four distinct IT/business alignment situations. This knowledge can now be used to construct methods and models that do not only operationalize alignment, but also can be adapted to the different situational needs.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE , 2011. p. 1-9
Keywords [en]
Adaptation model, Availability, Companies, Computer architecture, Industries
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-91660DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.63Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-79952922305ISBN: 978-1-4244-9618-1 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-91660DiVA, id: diva2:510967
Conference
System Sciences (HICSS-44), 4-7 January, 2011, Kauai, HI
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QC 20120321
2012-03-212012-03-192022-06-24Bibliographically approved