The relationship between IT and value is complex and often disputed. Researchers and practitioners have created numerous models and valuation methods to capture this value. Although payoffs from IT investment are a function of strategic alignment, most of these models do not address the alignment of business and IT as a factor that influences or creates value. This paper explores the role of bu...

IS/business alignment has been a major concern of IT managers for many years but we seem to be little closer to a solution. This paper extends earlier research that developed a theory of alignment that clearly demonstrates that the actions of both business and IT managers are bound by organisational factors. This bounding tends to reinforce the status quo making any changes to the situation ext...

In recent years, considerable attention has been focused on the effect of the alignment of a business’s strategy and its information systems on the success of information system implementation. Henderson and Venkatraman (1993) contend that “the inability to realize value [as a measure of IS implementation success] from I/T investments is, in part, due to the lack of alignment between the busine...

Information Systems are increasingly becoming essential to the success of business organizations. They play a central role in the success of almost all components of the organization such as business decision-making, business strategy formulation, business goal modeling, managing organizational resources, structure, managing organizational data etc. However, protecting information systems and o...

Process Mining is concerned with the analysis, understanding and improvement of business processes. One of the most important branches of process mining is conformance checking, i.e. assessing to what extent a business process model conforms to observed business process execution data. Alignments are the de facto standard instrument to compute conformance statistics. Alignments map elements of ...

Enterprise governance of IT is a relatively new concept in literature, and is gaining more interest in the academic and practitioner’s world. Enterprise governance of IT addresses the definition and implementation of processes, structures and relational mechanism that enable both business and IT people to execute their responsibilities in support of business/IT alignment and the creation of val...

THE pace of change in IT is very surprising. IT has proposed a solution for several of the Business problems and has been quite effective in doing so. At the same time, this has brought about rapid changing environment and Business needs. Several studies have focused on how the relationship between the IT Strategies and the Business Strategy of the firm can provide both financial and business a...

Scholars have proposed that IT enables organizational agility by extending the reach and richness of firm knowledge and processes. However, this relationship is still open to debate. Based on the dynamic capabilities perspective, this paper proposes a model to investigate how employee competence (i.e., IT competence of business people and business competence of IT professionals) affects organiz...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is increasingly applied in the logistics domain. As with other emerging technologies it is complex whether, when and how an organization should invest in RFID. In this paper the decision to adopt RFID in the logistic domain is explored. The authors take a business/IT-alignment approach and investigate the relation between business/IT-alignment principles an...

Although there is much research on strategic alignment, cross-domain alignment, that is bridging externally focused competitive strategies with internal focused IT processes, remains largely untouched. In view of this gap, we aim to shed light on the relationship between IT management profiles and business strategies linked by unique IT business value profiles. Building on prior literature, we ...