Exploring Business-IT Alignment Using the Repertory Grid
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This paper reports on a study exploring the cognition of executives regarding business-IT alignment. The project uses a cognitive mapping technique, known as the repertory grid, to explore the nature of the social dimension of alignment and its relationship to the intellectual dimension. The primary aims of this paper are to discuss the application and the contributions of the repertory grid to the study of business-IT alignment.
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