Antecedent Relationships in Business and Information Technology (IT) Alignment

Business-IT Strategic Alignment Focused on Social and Technical Dimensions

Achieving business-IT alignment is one of the main purposes and also challenges of organizations. Many studies have indicated the importance of aligning information systems (IS) function with other business functions. The main purpose of this survey is evaluating business-IT alignment focusing on social and technical dimensions of business-IT alignment in Bank Mellat. The data was collected thr...

Strategic Alignment Between Business and Information Technology

Strategic Cost-Cutting in Information Technology: toward a Framework for Enhancing the Business Value of IT

The increasing dependency of many businesses with information technology (IT)and the high percentage of the IT investment in all invested capital in businessenvironment ask for more attention to this important driver of business. Thelimitation of capital budget forces the managers to look for more wise investment inIT. There are many cost-cutting techniques in the literature and each of them ha...

Business and information technology alignment through business service orientation

The alignment issue between business and information technology is one of the most mind boggling problems enterprises encounter in achieving an agile and dynamic business it is so important that has a direct effect on the overall performance of an enterprise, in enterprises that there is an alignment, they have better business and are capable of presenting more suitable services with higher eff...

Information Technology Governance Barriers, Drivers, IT/Business Alignment, and Maturity in Ghanaian Universities

The purpose of this preliminary study was to determine the status of IT governance in universities in a developing country, Ghana, by assessing the drivers and barriers to pursuing formal ITG, measuring the extent to which universities align IT goals with academic and business objectives and determining ITG maturity level. Using a survey questionnaire and applying frequency analysis and T-test ...