Leveraging CIO Power to Enhance the Relationship Between Social Alignment and IT-Business Strategic Alignment

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-34
Author(s):  
Jennifer E Gerow
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
Power Balance ◽  
Chief Information Officers ◽  
Structural Power ◽  
Executive Team ◽  
The Social ◽  
Business Knowledge ◽  
It Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

To give Information Technology (IT) a more central role in an organization and avoid disrupting the existing executive team power balance, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) should only leverage their power in certain situations. We propose CIOs can leverage their expert, prestige, and structural power attributes to influence the social–intellectual alignment relationship versus the social–operational alignment relationship in unique ways. Analyzing data collected from 140 CIOs, the results suggest IT knowledge strengthens the social-strategic alignment relationship, business knowledge and structural power weaken the social–intellectual alignment relationship, and prestige power has no impact on the social-strategic alignment relationship. Implications of these findings are discussed.

CIO Power Influences the Social Alignment and IT-Business Strategic Alignment Relationship

2020 ◽  
pp. 290-315
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Gerow
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
Power Balance ◽  
Chief Information Officers ◽  
Structural Power ◽  
Executive Team ◽  
The Social ◽  
Business Knowledge ◽  
It Knowledge

To give information technology (IT) a more central role in an organization and avoid disrupting the existing executive team power balance, chief information officers (CIOs) should only leverage their power in certain situations. The authors propose CIOs can leverage their expert, prestige, and structural power attributes to influence the social-intellectual alignment relationship versus the social-operational alignment relationship in unique ways. Analyzing data collected from 140 CIOs, the results suggest IT knowledge strengthens the social-strategic alignment relationship, business knowledge, and structural power weaken the social-intellectual alignment relationship, and prestige power has no impact on the social-strategic alignment relationship.

IT Professionals

2012 ◽  
pp. 32-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
António Trigo ◽  
João Varajão ◽  
Pedro Soto-Acosta ◽  
João Barroso ◽  
Francisco J. Molina-Castillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Chief Information Officers ◽  
It Professionals ◽  
Business Knowledge ◽  
It Department ◽  
Training Institutions ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
It Skills

Nowadays, Universities and other Training Institutions need to clearly identify the Information Technology (IT) skills that companies demand from IT practitioners. This is essential not only for offering appropriate and reliable university degrees, but also to help future IT professionals on where to focus in order to achieve better job positions. In an attempt to address this issue, this study rely on 102 Chief Information Officers, from Iberian large companies, to characterize current IT professionals and what is expected from future hirings. Results revealed that IT Technicians and Senior Analysts are the predominant positions and also that future hiring will request candidates with at least two to five years of work experience. The two most important skills found were core functions at the IT department: business knowledge and user support. In contrast, traditional competences such as web development and management of emerging technologies were less demanded.

Investigating the Relationship between Strategic Alignment and Information Technology Business Value

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul P. Tallon ◽  
Kenneth L. Kraemer
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Strategic Intent ◽  
Business Executives ◽  
Information Systems Strategy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Process Level

Although business executives remain skeptical about the extent of payoffs from investment in information technology (IT), strategic alignment or the alignment of information systems strategy with business strategy continues to be ranked as one of the most important issues facing corporations. In this paper, we report on the results of a process-level study to investigate the relationship between strategic alignment and IT payoffs. An analysis of survey data from 63 firms finds a positive and significant relationship between strategic alignment and IT payoffs, a relationship that holds for all firms, irrespective of their strategic intent or goals for IT. However, in exploring minor differences in strategic alignment between firms with different goals for IT, we uncovered evidence of an alignment paradox. This paradox shows that while strategic alignment can lead to increased payoffs from IT, this relationship is only valid up to a certain point beyond which, paradoxically, further increases in strategic alignment appear to lead to lower IT payoffs. Finally, we offer some suggestions for why this paradox might exist, specifically around issues of environmental uncertainty, industry clock-speed, and the need for organizational flexibility

Impact of chief information officer’s strategic knowledge and structural power on enterprise systems success

2016 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Shao ◽  
Tienan Wang ◽  
Yuqiang Feng
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Enterprise Systems ◽  
Integral Model ◽  
Strategic Knowledge ◽  
Structural Power ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Business Knowledge ◽  
It Knowledge ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of chief information officer’s (CIO’s) strategic knowledge and structural power on enterprise systems (ES) success in the context of systems usage. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing upon knowledge-based view, this study links CIO’s strategic knowledge, structural power, ES assimilation and firm performance in an integral model. Sample data were collected in China and partial least squares technique was used to test the model. Findings – Empirical results suggest that CIO’s strategic information technology (IT) knowledge, strategic business knowledge and structural power have significant influence on ES assimilation. While ES assimilation mediates the association between CIO’s strategic knowledge, CIO’s structural power and firm performance. Another interesting finding in the study is that the imbalance of CIO’s strategic business knowledge and strategic IT knowledge is negatively associated with ES assimilation. Originality/value – This study enriches the extant literatures in IS leadership by showing the significant role of CIO’s knowledge balance and authority in promoting the assimilation of ES within the organization. The empirical findings can provide guidelines for the top executive to select a person who is familiar with both strategic business and IT knowledge to take charge of ES, also, to provide the person with appropriate structural power, in order to achieve the benefits of ES successfully.

scholarly journals The Role of Social Media in Empowering the Involvement of Women in Information Technology: A Case Study of Al-Qalam and Umaru Musa Yar’adua Universities

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-27
Author(s):  
Sanusi Abu Darma ◽  
Farida Aliyu ◽  
Shafi’u Abubakar Kurfi
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Women In Information Technology ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Relationship

The under-representation of the women in the field of Information Technology (IT) in Nigeria has been closely observed over the last decade. One of the facts is that social media have been widely and intensively used in Nigeria, which is an effective way to empower women in the IT sector. This study aimed to investigate the role of social media in empowering the involvement of women in information technology. In order to achieve the objectives of this study the current study conducted a survey amongst the female students of Al-Qalam and Umaru Musa Yar’adua Universities and tried to find out how the use of social media is contributing to the growth of women involvement in the IT sector. For this purpose, a sample of 200 female students was taken from these Universities via convenience sampling techniques. The quantitative method was used to collect data for this study. The findings in this study revealed that there was a significant relationship between women’s awareness and the encouragement of women in the IT sector through the use of the social media. Besides, there was a significant relationship between the empowerment of women and the encouragement of women in the IT sector through the use of the social media. Hence, women’s awareness and empowerment of women through the social media encouraged the involvement of women in the IT sector. In addition, this study recommends that there is need to examine the relationship between women and social media in various sectors such as government, healthcare, aerospace and security in order to trace the real role of social media in empowering the involvement of women in information technology in Nigeria.

Prophets and Profits of Racial Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruha Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Precision Medicine ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Racial Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Racial Ethnic

In this response to Terence Keel and John Hartigan’s debate over the social construction of race, I aim to push the discussion beyond the terrain of epistemology and ideology to examine the contested value of racial science in a broader political economy. I build upon Keel’s concern that even science motivated by progressive aims may reproduce racist thinking and Hartigan’s proposition that a critique of racial science cannot rest on the beliefs and intentions of scientists. In examining the value of racial-ethnic classifications in pharmacogenomics and precision medicine, I propose that analysts should attend to the relationship between prophets of racial science (those who produce forecasts about inherent group differences) and profits of racial science (the material-semiotic benefits of such forecasts). Throughout, I draw upon the idiom of speculation—as a narrative, predictive, and financial practice—to explain how the fiction of race is made factual, again and again. 

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