It is increasingly acknowledged that firms cannot be competitive if their business and information technology strategies are not aligned. A number of proposals have been made for achieving strategic alignment. Despite still being a major concern for business executives there is little published research that attempts to give methodological support for achieving strategic alignment in day-to-day...

This paper explores the co-relational process activities of information technology and systems (IT/IS) and business strategy alignment. The notion of “process” as being strategy and strategic alignment has been observed but not examined. Organizations are both complex and adaptive, and these attributes create significant challenges for managers when assessing strategic requirements. A need exis...

In this article, we introduce a framework that can be used by organizations as a positioning instrument to think of business-ICT alignment decisions in light of the strategic importance of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in their organization. We make a distinction between organizations where ICT is of high strategic importance and those where ICT is of low strategic importance. ...

Strategic alignment between business and information technology (IT) is considered key to maximizing IT impact. Nonetheless, only seldom have exceptional achievements in performance been studied from the viewpoint of the Strategic Alignment Model (SAM). This paper describes a longitudinal case study of a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), named here MHMO, which serves over 1.7 million membe...

Business/IT alignment is a key management issue and has been largely investigated. Requirement engineering now deals with goal modeling and enterprise modeling; it addresses the "function integration" but doesn't explicitly addresses the "strategic fit". The assumption of this talk is that making explicit the business model can contribute to improving the business/IT alignment. The role of a fo...

This paper presents a new approach for the business and information systems (IS) alignment consisting of a framework, metamodel, process, and tools for implementing it in practice. The purpose of the approach is to fill in the gap between the existing conceptual business and IS alignment frameworks and the empirical business and IS alignment methods. The suggested approach is based on the SOA, ...