Paper Info
Title
Analysis of IT/Business Alignment Situations as a Precondition for the Design and Engineering of Situated IT/Business Alignment Solutions
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/HICSS.2011.63
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
business alignment solutions,situated it,business alignment situation,distinct it,different situational need,it governance perspective,design research perspective,it executive,business alignment,it system,business alignment situations,operationalize alignment,business alignment problem,exploratory study,availability,computer architecture,design research
Artifact-centric business process model,New business development,Information management,Strategic alignment,Computer science,Information technology,Knowledge management,Operationalization,Business process modeling,Business rule,Management science
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.77
15
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jan Saat1876.96
Robert Winter240039.82
Ulrik Franke3644.57
Robert Lagerstrom4453.04
Mathias Ekstedt563449.70