IS/business alignment is an ongoing concern for both IS and other senior managers. Although it is often seen as a progression towards alignment, then full integration, of IS plans and business plans there is increasing evidence that the social dimension of alignment, or IS/business integration, is an equally important aspect. So far there has been no overriding theory for the social dimension o...

This paper presents a specification-based testing approach and implementation architecture that addresses several known challenges including false positives and domain knowledge errors. Our approach begins with a system goal graph consisting of high level business goals which are refined to operational goals, and plans that describe how to strategically achieve these goals. Along the goal refin...

INTRODUCTION The purpose was to examine whether health-promotion programs offered by California health plans are a serious attempt to improve health status or a marketing device used in an increasingly competitive marketplace. The research examined differences in the coverage, availability, utilization, and evaluation of health-promotion programs in California health plans. METHODS A mail sur...

The IT Plan is generally seen as a cornerstone of the IS/IT presence in an organisation. Researchers have outlined various approaches to IT planning and many have suggested categorising such plans in terms of an evolutionary model detailing the degree of integration with organisational business plans. To determine how IT plans are developed in practice and the actual forces at play the study in...