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A Literature Review of Business/IT Alignment Strategies

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Enterprise Information Systems

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 141))

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The alignment issue was addressed in several researches and numerous methods, techniques and tools were proposed. Choosing the most suitable approach to a specific need is a challenging task. This paper describes a characterization framework that can be applied for evaluating different alignment approaches, with the aim of discovering similarity, maturity, capability to measure, model, asses and evolve the alignment level existing among business and technological assets of an enterprise. A literature review was executed by applying the proposed framework to alignment research approach published in the Information & Management Journal and Journal of Strategic Information Systems. The achieved evaluation results are presented.

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  1. Departement of Engineering, University of Sannio, Via Traiano, 82100, Benevento, Italy

    Lerina Aversano, Carmine Grasso & Maria Tortorella

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, Setúbal, Portugal

    José Cordeiro

  2. Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal

    Leszek A. Maciaszek

  3. Wroclaw University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland

    Joaquim Filipe

  4. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    José Cordeiro

Appendix: The Analysed Papers

Appendix: The Analysed Papers

Considered papers from Journal Information & Management – Elsevier

S1.:

Kearns, G. S.: An electronic commerce strategic typology: insights from case studies. 42(7), pp. 1023–1036, October 2005.

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Burn, J. M., Szeto, C.: A comparison of the views of business and IT management on success factors for strategic alignment. 37(4), pp. 197–216, June 2000.

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Peak, D., Guynes, C.S., Kroon, V.: Information technology Alignment Planning—a case study. 42(4), pp. 619–633, May 2005.

S4.:

Wu, J., Shin, S., Heng, M. S. H.: A methodology for ERP misfit analysis . 44(8), pp. 666–680, December 2007.

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Cumps, B., Martens, D., De Backer, M., Haesen, R., Viaene, S., Dedene, G., Baesens, B., Snoeck, M.: Inferring comprehensible business/ICT alignment rules. 46(2), pp. 116–124, March 2009.

S6.:

Chen, L.: Business–IT alignment maturity of companies in China. 47(1), pp. 9–16, January 2010.

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Johnson, A. M., Lederer, A. L.: CEO/CIO mutual understanding, strategic alignment, and the contribution of IS to the organization. 47(3), pp. 138–149, April 2010.

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Byrd, T. A., Lewis, B. R., Bryan, R. W.: The leveraging influence of strategic alignment on IT investment: An empirical examination. 43(3), pp. 308–321, April 2006.

S9.:

Velcu, O.: Strategic alignment of ERP implementation stages: An empirical investigation. 47(3), pp. 158–166, April 2010.

S10.:

Bergeron, F., Raymond, L., Rivard, S.: Ideal patterns of strategic alignment and business performance. 41(8), pp. 1003–1020, November 2004

S11.:

Fink, L., Neumann, S.: Exploring the perceived business value of the flexibility enabled by information technology infrastructure. 46(2), pp. 90–99, March 2009.

S12.:

Choe, J.: The effect of environmental uncertainty and strategic applications of IS on a firm’s performance, 40(4), pp. 257–268, March 2003.

S13.:

Newkirk, H. E., Lederer, A. L.: The effectiveness of strategic information systems planning under environmental uncertainty. 43(4), pp. 481–501, June 2006.

S14.:

Nelson, M. L., Peterson, J., Rariden, R. L., Sen, R.: Transitioning to a business rule management service model: Case studies from the property and casualty insurance industry. 47(1), pp. 30–41, January 2010.

S15.:

Aerts, A. T. M., Goossenaerts, J. B. M.: Hammer, D. K., Wortmann, J. C.: Architectures in context: on the evolution of business, application software, and ICT platform architectures. 41(6), pp. 781–794, July 2004.

S16.:

Kearns, G. S., Lederer, A. L.: The impact of industry contextual factors on IT focus and the use of IT for competitive advantage. 41(7), pp. 899–919, September 2004.

S17.:

Huisman, M., Iivari, J.: Deployment of systems development methodologies: Perceptual congruence between IS managers and systems developers. 43(1), pp. 29–49, January 2006.

Considered papers from Journal of Strategic Information Systems – Elsevier

S18.:

Kearns, G.S., Lederer A.L., 2000. The effect of Strategic alignment on the use of IS-based resources for competitive advantage, 9 pp. 265–293.

S19.:

Kim, S.H., Jang, D.H., Lee, D.H., Cho, S.H., 2000. Methodology of constructing a decision pathfor IT investment, 9 pp. 17–38.

S20.:

Avison, D., Jones, J., Powell, P., Wilson, D., 2004. Using and validating the strategic alignment model, 13 pp. 223–246.

S21.:

Wijnhoven, F., Spil, T., Stegwee, R., Tjang A Fa. R.,2006. Post-merger IT integration strategies: An IT alignment perspective, 15 pp. 5–28.

S22.:

Beard, J., W., Sumner, M., 2004. Seeking strategic advantage in the post-net era: viewing ERP systems from the resource-based perspective, 13 pp. 129–150.

S23.:

Boonstra, A., Broekhuis, M., van Offenbeek, M., Wortmann, H.,2011. Strategic alternatives in telecare design Developing a valueconfiguration-based alignment framework, 20 pp. 198–214.

S24.:

Peppard, J., Ward, J., 2004.Beyond strategic information systems: towards an IS capability,13 pp. 167–194.

S25.:

Dhaliwal, J., Onita, C., G., Poston, R., Zhang, X., P., 2011. Alignment within the software development unit: Assessing structural and relational dimensions between developers and testers, 20 pp. 323–342.

S26.:

Mohdzaher B. Mohdzain, John M. Ward, 2007. A study of subsidiaries’ views of information systems strategic planning in multinational organizations,16 pp. 324–352.

S27.:

Cragg, P., King, M., Hussin H., 2002. IT alignment and firm performance in small manufacturing firms, 11 pp. 109–132.

S28.:

Ragu-Nathan, B., Ragu-Nathan, T.S., Tu, Q., Shi, Z., 2001. Information management (IM) strategy: the construct and its measurement 10 pp. 265–289.

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Aversano, L., Grasso, C., Tortorella, M. (2013). A Literature Review of Business/IT Alignment Strategies. In: Cordeiro, J., Maciaszek, L.A., Filipe, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40654-6_28

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