IT Alignment: What Have We Learned?

Chan, Yolande E.; Reich, Blaize Horner

doi:10.1057/palgrave.jit.2000109

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“…The success of such an initiative is also critically dependent on carrying out effective Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) by the firm (Galliers, 1991). As the process whereby an organization determines a portfolio of computer-based applications to help it achieve its business objectives (Galliers, 1993;Lederer and Sethi, 1988), SISP focuses on aligning investment in IS with business goals, exploring IT for competitive advantage, directing efficient and effective management of IS resources, and developing technology policies and architectures (Chan and Reich, 2007;Dohertya et al, 1999;Min et al, 1999;Newkirka et al, 2003;Teubner, 2007). Effective SISP will help support innovations in a firm's IT-dependent strategic initiative (Galliers et al, 1998(Galliers et al, , 1995, such as the implementation of Green IT initiatives.…”

Section: It Capital It-enabled Changes In Management Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Galliers¹

2008

The Journal of Strategic Information Systems

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a b s t r a c tGreen IT (information technology) has recently emerged into an active research area in the information systems (IS) discipline. A major gap that exists in the Green IT research literature today is the absence of a theoretical framework that can be used to assist organizations in assessing their potential for undertaking Green IT initiatives and implementing them via modern technological means such as virtualization. This study attempts to bridge this gap by developing and proposing an integrative framework which focuses on identifying and examining the factors that contribute to the assessment of a firm's readiness to go green via IT-enabled virtualization. The framework is firmly grounded using three wellestablished IS theories: (a) technology-organization-environment, (b) process-virtualization, and (c) diffusion of innovation. It integrates these three theoretical lenses to utilize the strengths of each for assessing the potential for undertaking Green IT initiatives and the stages of Green IT implementation at the organizational level. The implications of the outcome of this study, both for the IS researchers and for the practicing managers are discussed. The plan for empirical testing and validation of our propositions is presented, as well as suggestions for future extensions of this study.

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Section: It Capital It-enabled Changes In Management Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Galliers¹

2008

The Journal of Strategic Information Systems

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“…The ability of enterprise models to depict and represent enterprise from several perspectives to provide a multidimensional understanding makes EM a powerful tool that also can be used for Business and IT alignment (BITA) Seigerroth, [3]; Wegmann et al, [4]. In general the problem of BITA has received great attention from both practitioners and researchers Chan and Reich, [5]; Luftman and McLean, [6]. This branch of EM focuses on the gap between the organizational context and technology (information systems in particular) that is pervasive in organization operations and provides a backbone as well as communication means for realizing the organization goals.…”

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Practical Challenges of Enterprise Modeling in the Light of Business and IT Alignment

Kaidalova

Seigerroth

Kaczmarek

et al. 2012

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. The need to reduce a gap between organizational context and technology within enterprise has been recognized and discussed by both researchers and practitioners. In order to solve this problem it is required to capture and analyze both business and IT dimensions of enterprise operation. In this regard, Enterprise Modeling is currently considered as widely used and powerful tool that enables and facilitates alignment of business with IT. The central role of EM process is EM practitioner -a person who facilitates and drives EM project towards successful achievement of its goals. Conducting EM is a highly collaborative and nontrivial process that requires considerable skills and experience since there are various challenges to manage and to deal with during the whole EM project. Despite quite wide range of related research, the question of EM challenges needs further investigation, in particular concerning the viewpoint of EM practitioners. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to identify challenges that EM practitioners usually face during their modeling efforts taking into consideration potential influence of these challenges on successful conduct of EM and on alignment of Business and IT thereafter.

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“…Such links are necessary to align people, products and services with long-term visions, and further, to help in ensuring that IT systems are defined and designed in accordance to business strategy, thereby contributing to solve the always-present problem of business-IT alignment [2].…”

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Modeling Competition-Driven Business Strategy for Business IT Alignment

Giannoulis

Petit

Zdravković

2011

Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications

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Abstract. Business strategy aims at supporting the vision of an enterprise, by paving the way to achieve it through goals that direct the strategy's execution. Aligning business strategy to system requirements requires explicit models from both business strategy and requirements engineering. However, existing business strategy definition approaches are informal and their syntax is based on natural language, therefore, they cannot be used in model-driven alignment. An objective of our research is to define a well-structured business strategy modeling language. In this paper, we propose a business strategy meta-model based on Porter's work on competition driven strategy and its extension by Stabell and Fjeldstad. Our UML meta-model is formalized in Telos and OWL. An initial validation is performed by instantiating the meta-model using a case scenario.

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IT Alignment: What Have We Learned?

Cited by 752 publications

References 96 publications

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Practical Challenges of Enterprise Modeling in the Light of Business and IT Alignment

Modeling Competition-Driven Business Strategy for Business IT Alignment

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