Business IT Alignment: A Never-ending Story

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...

A Never-Ending Story

Take a strip of paper with ‘once upon a time there’ written on one side and ‘was a story that began’ on the other. Twisting the paper and joining the ends produces John Barth’s story Frame-Tale, which prefixes ‘once upon a time there was a story that began’ to itself. In this paper, I argue that the possibility of understanding Frame-Tale cannot be explained by tacit knowledge of a recursive th...

A never-ending story

Today we won’t talk about dragons that take you for a walk if you get on its hump. Nor we’ll talk about men with feet on their heads or any other creature from the delusional mind of Michael Ende. Today we’re going to talk about another never-ending story: that of diagnostic tests indicators. When you think you know them all, you can raise a stone to find another beneath it. And why are there s...

Continuous Improvement of Turkey Production and Health: Never-ending Story