This study examines how and why strategic IT alignment can be used to create competitive advantage and to what extent information intensity affects this process. A model is tested to examine how and why strategic IT alignment can produce enhanced organizational knowledge that yields competitive advantage. The model differentiates between alignment between the business plan and IT plan (BP-ITP a...

When Andy Koval joined what was then called the University of Vermont’s Technical Services Program (TSP) as a biomedical equipment technician in 1999, he remembers being presented with the organization’s strategic plan as part of his new employee orientation. When clinical engineer Leah Rafuse joined one year later, she too received the strategic plan at orientation and thereafter heard periodi...

1. INTRODUCTION Strategic plan implementation is a critical process facing senior management now and into the foreseeable future. While literature abounds on how to go about strategic planning, there is comparatively little written about how to implement a strategic plan once it is developed. One explanation for this phenomenon is that successful implementation is inextricably linked to the cul...

different models with various approaches to strategic positioning have been employed to define it in various industries. as one of the powerful models, bsc analyses all aspect of organization evenly. in this study bsc is used as an instrument to make shiraz university more efficient in implementing strategic and performance or supporting their strategic plan. therefore this study aims to design...

TB is one of the top three priority diseases in the Ministry of Health’s National Health Plan. The National TB Programme (NTP) is implementing a National Strategic Plan for TB control, 2011-2015, based on evidence from a 2009-2010 nationwide TB prevalence survey, and in line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Stop TB Strategy. The National Strategic Plan aims to accomplish the TB-relate...

John Sterling is a partner and co-founder of Smock Sterling – Strategic Management Consultants, located in Lake Forest, Illinois ([email protected])). The Žrm specializes in strategic planning and management. Sterling’s previous Strategy & Leadership case study (Vol. 30 No. 6, November/December 2002) explained how Rubicon Technology, a high tech start-up, successfully practices strate...

Strategic Operations Planning has been well defined but rarely carried out in practise. A suitable planning process for busy, operationally-focused managers is considered likely to improve the extent of implementation.. A process should incorporate logistics of the whole supply chain as well as internal operations. The present process uses action research, in which an external facilitator stimu...

A strategic audit is an objective review and evaluation of a plan (or set plans) that have been put into motion by senior leaders key stakeholders designed to meet organization’s future objective. [CMOE, 2023] How such executed will direct impact on the ultimate value exercise. In this paper, we examine discuss structure audit, context in which conducted, frequency audits application ...