The Fit between IS Leadership Style and Business Strategy to Achieve Business-IS Strategic Alignment

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 113-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Shao ◽  
Yuqiang Feng ◽  
Luning Liu
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Strategic Alignment

A Study of Business Intelligence Strategy Development by Large Organizations

2019 ◽  
pp. 326-339
Author(s):  
Carmine Carmine Sellitto ◽  
Paul Hawking
Keyword(s):  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
Important Predictor ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Informational Needs ◽  
Information Presentation ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach

Organizations have adopted business intelligence solutions with a mixed degree of benefits. Some businesses highlight significant outcomes, while others identify limitations or shortfalls in the benefits derived. Notably, the alignment of business strategy with the adoption of business intelligence processes has been an important predictor of firms being able to achieve organizational wide benefits. The chapter uses a case study approach to document the informational needs achieved through aligning organizational strategy and the adoption of business intelligence solution at two distinct companies. The adoption approaches used by each firm, although different, reflect the important areas in which business intelligence is most useful—strategic alignment, governance, and information presentation.

Developing Business Aligned Knowledge Management Strategy

2011 ◽  
pp. 2631-2645
Author(s):  
El-Sayed Abou-Zeid
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Knowledge Management Strategy ◽  
Knowledge Strategy ◽  
Alignment Model ◽  
Knowledge Strategies ◽  
The Relationship

With the growing awareness of the crucial role that knowledge can play in gaining competitive advantage, several issues with regard to knowledge management (KM) initiatives have challenged executives. The articulation of the relationship between an organization’s competitive strategy and its knowledge strategy is the most eminent. This chapter addresses the issue of how to align knowledge strategy with enterprise business strategy. Based on the premise that the realization of business value from KM investments requires alignment between business and knowledge strategies, the issue is addressed by developing a strategic alignment model for KM. This model, which is based on the Henderson-Venkatraman strategic alignment model, includes the external domains (opportunities/threat) and internal domains (capabilities/arrangements) of both business (B-) and knowledge (K-) strategies and the relationships between them. Furthermore, it provides alternative strategic choices. The model is used to study a KM initiative at Buckman Laboratories.

A Conceptual Model for Aligning IT Valuation Methods

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Gilbert Silvius
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
Valuation Methods ◽  
It Alignment ◽  
Valuation Method ◽  
Business And It Alignment ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between IT and value is complex and often disputed. Researchers and practitioners have created numerous models and valuation methods to capture this value. Although payoffs from IT investment are a function of strategic alignment, most of these models do not address the alignment of business and IT as a factor that influences or creates value. This paper explores the role of business and IT alignment in the valuation methods of IT assets and investments. It focuses on the impacts resulting from the use of IT assets, considering the function and nature of the impacts. It also explores the alignment of IT valuation and business strategy. The paper is concluded with the construction of a comprehensive selection model that provides guidance for aligning the IT valuation method with the specific characteristics, impacts and organizational context of an IT asset or investment.

Enterprise and Technology Architectures

2011 ◽  
pp. 167-221
Author(s):  
Eng K. Chew ◽  
Petter Gottschalk
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
The State ◽  
State Change ◽  
It Strategy ◽  
Investment Portfolio ◽  
Future State ◽  
The Future

The role of integrated enterprise architecture in IT strategy and strategic alignment is explained in Chapter V. This chapter describes in detail the principles and methods for developing a business-aligned enterprise architecture that will define the roadmap to attain the future state of the enterprise envisioned by the business strategy and guide the IT investment portfolio necessary for the state change.

Strategic Alignment for Business Value Creation

2011 ◽  
pp. 131-166
Author(s):  
Eng K. Chew ◽  
Petter Gottschalk
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
Good Method ◽  
Specific Productivity ◽  
It Strategy ◽  
It Alignment ◽  
Full Life Cycle ◽  
Strategy Process ◽  
Explicitly Correlated ◽  
The Individual

Chapter IV defines the macromodel for achieving business/IT alignment. This chapter defines the detailed methodology for each step of the IT strategy process. First, the business strategy process must be methodical and able to clearly show the linkage between corporate strategic intents and the respective specific business functional plans for realizing the intents. For example, for a specific productivity goal defined for the corporation, the respective initiatives planned for sales and marketing, and those for supply chain management must be clearly linked and explicitly correlated in a “cause-and-effect” manner. A good method invented by Norton and Kaplan called strategy map is an effective tool for this purpose. This chapter reviews the basic principles of IT strategy. It briefly discusses various models used to analyze or describe disparate parts of strategic alignment. These strategic alignment models are contrasted with our end-to-end alignment model for defining and executing business-aligned IT strategy. It shows that our model has integrated all the individual disparate alignment elements proposed by these models. Further, it shows our model has addressed some key requirements which have either not been considered or only partially considered by some of these models. The main strengths of our model compared to previous work are twofold: (a) it addresses all alignment elements in an integrated fashion to make them meaningful and useful for practitioners; and (b) it addresses the full life cycle of strategic alignment from direction setting to strategic outcome monitoring and ongoing feedback loop for self-adjusted alignment (aided by architecture principles and IT governance).

Connecting the Links Between Leadership Styles and Virtual Team Effectiveness

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (02) ◽  
pp. 185-205
Author(s):  
Raushan Gross
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Team Effectiveness ◽  
Virtual Team ◽  
Team Leaders ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Virtual Domain

This research attempted to connect the links between leadership styles and virtual team effectiveness. Linking leadership styles with virtual team effectiveness can result in virtual esprit de corps, which has been ignored in the literature. A theoretical model is provided and presents these links based on leadership style characteristics. Each style characteristic is matched with an effectiveness dimension, which was culled from supporting studies in the virtual domain. What this research provides, that others did not, is a topical view of leadership in a virtual context. The conceptualization and development of these links contribute to researchers, team leaders and managers, organizational theory, small business strategy, and policy makers involved in virtual configurations.

The Matching and Evolutionary Path Model of IT and Business Alignment Based on Dynamic Capabilities

2014 ◽  
Vol 519-520 ◽  
pp. 1463-1467
Author(s):  
Chao Su ◽  
Li Tao Zhang ◽  
Peng Fei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Dynamic Feedback ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Evolutionary Path ◽  
Business Alignment

The good match of IT and business is an important prerequisite to ensure business strategy and the value of enterprise information investments. With the intensive application of IT and the rapidly changing of environment, the match of IT and business should be more concerned about its dynamic characteristics and evolution law. Based on the research analysis of IT and business matching, the strategic alignment model (SAM model) and the business-IT strategic alignment maturity model (LAM model), the paper introduces the dynamic capabilities to build an IT and business matching and evolutionary path model under the action of dynamic capabilities. In the model, nine paths and four steps are proposed to describe the matching and evolution of IT and business. The roles of dynamic capabilities are explained in describing the matching and evolution paths, such as perception, capital-and technology path dependence, learning, dynamic feedback, resource restructuring and reconfiguration, team, coordination and innovation etc. It has a strong reference to the deep research of IT and business alignment, matching and evolutionary path and the enterprise information technology applications.

scholarly journals Perancangan Permainan Simulasi (Game Simulation) Untuk Menilai Tingkat Kematangan Strategi Teknologi Informasi terhadap Strategi Bisnis Dengan Metode IT Balanced Scorecard dan Maturity Model COBIT 4.1

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Agnes Karina Pritha Atmani
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
Technology Strategy ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Maturity Level ◽  
Alignment Model ◽  
Game Simulation

Keselarasan strategi Teknologi Informasi terhadap strategi bisnis sangat dibutuhkan untuk mencapai tujuan bisnis. Pencapaian keselarasan strategi, sebagai suatu proses yang berkelanjutan, membutuhkan dukungan dari Top Management dan fungsi-fungsi lain dalam perusahaan. Penilaian kematangan tingkat keselarasan strategi TI terhadap strategi bisnis akan digunakan sebagai alat ukur untuk menilai tingkat keselarasan strategi TI terhadap strategi bisnis. Nilai tersebut akan digunakan sebagai langkah awal untuk tindakan perbaikan berkelanjutan.Penggunaan permainan simulasi merupakan gabungan dari dua metode experiential learning, yaitu simulasi (simulation) yang dapat melakukan peniruan dari suatu perilaku atau proses dan permainan (game) yang merupakan aktifitas yang kompetitif. Melaui Experiential Learning pengguna permainan dapat melakukan pembelajaran secara aktif dan memperoleh pengetahuan, pemahaman, dan pandangan baru mengenai suatu hal.Penilaian kematangan tingkat keselarasan strategi TI terhadap strategi bisnis akan mengacu pada konsep Strategic Alignment Model yang diperkenalkan oleh Henderson dan Venkatraman dan IT-Balanced Scorecard yang dikembangkan Grembergen dan Bruggen. Keduanya memberikan panduan mengenai model-model yang dapat diimplementasikan di perusahaan. Sedangkan penilaian kematangannya berdasarkan kriteria Maturity Model COBIT 4.1 (Control Objective on Information and related Technology) Kata kunci: Permainan Simulasi, Experiential Learning, Teknologi Informasi, Strategi TI, Strategi Bisnis, Strategic Alignment Model-Henderson & Venkatraman, IT-Balances Scorecard – Grembergen & Bruggen, dan COBIT 4.1 Maturity Model. AbstractThe alignment of Information Technology strategy with business strategy is important to achieve business objectives. Strategy alignment, as an ongoing process, requires support from Top Management as well as from other functions in the company. The assessment of maturity level on the alignment of Information Technology with business strategy becomes the measuring tool to assess the alignment of Information Technology strategy with business strategy. The score, then, will be used as starting point in accomplishing continuous repair action.The use of game simulation is a combination of two experiential learning methods, namely simulation that can perform the imitation of a behavior or process and game which is a competitive activity. Through Experiential Learning game users can actively learn and gain new knowledge, insights, and insights about things.The assessment of maturity level of the aligment of Information Technology with business strategy which applied Strategic Alignment Model concept introduced by Henderson and Venkatraman and IT-Balanced Scorecard by Grembergen and Bruggen. Both have given guidelines about several models that can be implemented at company. Moreover, in order to assess the maturity level, this research uses Maturity Model COBIT 4.1 (Control Objective on Information and related Technology.Keywords: Information Technology, Game Simulation, Experiential Learning, Information Technology strategy, Business strategy, Strategic Alignment Model-Henderson & Venkatraman, IT-Balanced Scorecard-Grembergen & Bruggen, and COBIT 4.1 Maturity Model.

STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT BETWEEN INFORMATION SYSTEM AND BUSINESS STRATEGY AS PERFORMANCE FACTORS; A REVIEW OF LITERATURE

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Basel J. A. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Management Information System ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Systems Research

The subject of information system (IS) strategic alignment is being widely researched; those factors affecting its placement have not been adequately addressed. How information system technology can help improve firm performance is an important research issue in information systems research and a point of concern for top management. This paper intends to review existing literature, analyses the arguments on the issues of the alignment of Information system (IS) with business strategy in order to enhance business or organizational performance. Various approaches and models to achieve this alignment have been postulated and factors affecting alignment of IS where all reviewed to establish a common ground and differences across the journal papers analyzed. This was achieved through a systematic review beginning with literature search on multiple keywords which includes Management information system, strategic alignment, business or organization strategy and performance, paper selection criteria was then used to select appropriate papers. About 47 papers spread across 26 journals where used in the analysis. Resulted are summarized with the aid of simple descriptive statistics. The findings will provide a clear direction on the strategic importance of management information system as a tool for modern business design and expansion. This will benefit both academics and practice as a model for sustainable business development.

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