This essay addresses two questions: "How does sustained strategic alignment create value and provide competitive advantage for a firm?" and "How can strategic alignment that is sustained over time be conceptualized and quantified?" We build on the Dynamic Capabilities Framework and suggest that an organization’s ability to achieve a high degree of strategic alignment is an enduring competency...

In this paper, we describe differences between a classical word alignment on the surface (word-layer alignment) and an alignment of deep syntactic sentence representations (tectogrammatical alignment). The deep structures we use are dependency trees containing content (autosemantic) words as their nodes. Most of other functional words, such as prepositions, articles, and auxiliary verbs are hid...

IS/IT alignment has consistently been identified as a top concern of senior IS/IT executives. Although organizations intuitively expect benefits from IS/IT alignment, many struggle to create alignment. Because the mechanisms which develop alignment are likely to be different for each organization, research must provide practice with a comprehensive conceptualization of alignment. Conceptualizat...

Pairwise Alignment and Dynamic Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Global Alignment vs. Local Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Local Alignment vs. Database Searching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Importance of the Cost Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Multiple Alignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

We introduce a novel discriminative model for phrase-based monolingual alignment using a semi-Markov CRF. Our model achieves stateof-the-art alignment accuracy on two phrasebased alignment datasets (RTE and paraphrase), while doing significantly better than other strong baselines in both non-identical alignment and phrase-only alignment. Additional experiments highlight the potential benefit of...

This paper addresses the question, "How do organizations sustain alignment between organizational strategy and IT strategy over time?" We begin our investigation of this question by reviewing the literature on alignment. From this vantage point, we develop a model of sustained strategic alignment over time that integrates the two primary perspectives on alignment, alignment as an end state and ...