Strategic Business-IT alignment of application software packages: Bridging the Information Technology gap

Strategic business-IT alignment of application software packages: bridging the information technology gap

An application software package implementation is a complex endeavour, and as such it requires the proper understanding, evaluation and redefining of the current business processes of an organisation to ensure that the implementation delivers on the objectives set at the start of the project. Numerous factors exist that may contribute to the unsuccessful implementation of application software p...

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...

Strategic Alignment Between Business and Information Technology

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...

IT - Business Strategic Alignment and Organizational Agility: The Moderating Role of Environmental Uncertainty

This study investigates the effect of IT-business strategic alignment on organizational agility by considering the effects of IT flexibility and IT capability on strategic alignment. Also this study investigates the moderating role of environmental uncertainty on the relationship between strategic alignment and organizational agility. This research is an applied research based on purpose and de...