This paper provides insight into identifying areas that help or hinder business-IT alignment.
Alignment focuses on the activities that management performs to achieve cohesive goals …

Strategic alignment remains a key area of focus among business executives. Methods exist
with which to determine the type of alignment a firm is following and there has even been …

In recent years, information technology (IT) has become a critical tool for the execution of
business strategy and a driver of business strategy. The alignment of business strategy and …

The alignment between information systems (IS) and business strategy along with its
implications for perceived IS effectiveness and business performance is an important …

The issues, opportunities and challenges of aligning information technology more closely
with an organization and effectively governing an organization s Information Technology (IT) …

A new approach to shape from shading is described, based on a connection with a calculus
of variations/optimal control problem. An explicit representation is given for the surface …

The concept of strategic alignment is more than two decades old (McLean and Soden, 1977;
IBM, 1981; Earl, 1983; Mills, 1986; Brancheau and Wetherbe, 1987; Parker and Benson …

Recently, the importance of Information Technology (IT) for effective Knowledge
Management (KM) activities has been stated. Effective KM projects alone cannot lead to …

Based on interviews with a number of architects and managers from a wide range of
organizations, we characterize how architecture is perceived in practice. We identify three …

A study sponsored primarily by the Advanced Practices Council of the Society for Information
Management (SIM) International is briefly described. The research involved a mail survey in …