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A Literature Review of Business/IT Alignment Strategies

verfasst von : Lerina Aversano, Carmine Grasso, Maria Tortorella

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Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

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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Metadaten
Titel
A Literature Review of Business/IT Alignment Strategies
verfasst von
Lerina Aversano
Carmine Grasso
Maria Tortorella
Copyright-Jahr
2013
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40654-6_28

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