Exploring Business - IT Nexus: Make the Most of IT-Enabled Capabilities

Increasingly the business success and economic opportunities steadily depend on IT-enabled capabilities and IT-driven business transformations. The strategic alignment of IT capabilities to organizational business strategy, as content and processes, ensures further IT governance to seize opportunities for improvements and to maximize revenue. Utilizing a well deliberated framework -Operating model, Enterprise architecture, and IT engagement model- the paper explores the impact of emerging technologies on the alignment process. Currently, companies across the globe are going through a very disruptive technology development: Consumerization of IT. Consumerization of IT, along with workforce mobility, reliable, accessible and affordable remote computing, are forcefully reshaping the corporate IT lanscape, affecting the relationship between enterprise IT, knowledge workers, corporate users, and consumers. The paper confers the impact of these trends on the IT domain and specifically emphasizes on the dynamic forces interlinking IT capabilities with the business agility, growth and asset utilization.