IT alignment: what have we learned?

By Yolande E. Chan, Blaize Horner Reich. Journal of Information and Technology, 2007

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Subfields: Management Information Systems

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Role of Social and Technological Challenges in Achieving a Sustainable Competitive Advantage and Sustainable Business Performance (2019, background): “A few researchers [97,98] showed that the literature proposes that the organizations could be competitive just if there is an alignment between the business and data innovation of the organizations.”
Strategic IT alignment: twenty-five years on (2015, background): “Conceptualand measurement confusion between holistic and reductionistic perspectives is common (Gerdin and Greve, 2004; Chan and Reich, 2007), suggesting that there may be opportunities to identify missing links in the IT alignment process chain or to more broadly consider the development of a more…”
Integrative framework for assessing firms' potential to undertake Green IT initiatives via virtualization - A theoretical perspective (2011, methodology): “Third, our proposed model has important theoretical implications to further justify the debate on ‘‘IT value paradox’’ (Carr, 2003; Thatcher and Pingry, 2007).”
Aligning with new digital strategy: A dynamic capabilities approach (2017, background): “…recent research has called for a focus on the aligning process rather than on alignment (Karpovsky & Galliers, 2015; Wilson et al., 2013), and to understand the role of actions taken over time to align strategy and resources (Chan & Reich, 2007; Coltman et al., 2015; Marabelli & Galliers, 2017).”
Resource Structuring or Capability Building? An Empirical Study of the Business Value of Information Technology (2012, background): “The strengthened relationships can promote information sharing [46, 60] and facilitate alignment between IT strategy and business strategy [15, 40, 54, 92].”
Digital Business Strategy: Toward a Next Generation of Insights (2013, background): “…studies, including studies on business process redesign, intrafirm and interfirm systems, business value of IT, and IT outsourcing, among others (e.g., Chan and Reich 2007; Hirschheim and Sabherwal 2001; Hussin et al. 2002; Luftman and Brier 1999; Reich and Benbasat 2000; Sabherwal and Chan 2001;…”
Unpacking the Difference Between Digital Transformation and IT-Enabled Organizational Transformation (2021, background): “Until recently, it has been a widely accepted assumption that successfully aligning IT with business strategies of organizations has positive performance effects (Chan & Reich, 2007; Gerow et al., 2014).”
Information Systems Strategy: Reconceptualization, Measurement, and Implications (2010, background): “As a consequence, three closely related streams of literature have emerged, which include strategic information systems planning (SISP) (Galliers 1991, 2004; Premkumar and King 1994; Ward and Peppard 2002), alignment between IS strategy and business strategy (Chan et al. 1997; Chan and Reich 2007; H”
Digital human resource management: A conceptual clarification (2020, background): “A third ideal-type is characterized by the strategic alignment of digital technologies (Chan and Reich, 2007; Coltman et al., 2015; Henderson and venkatraman, 1993).”
An Exploratory Study into IT Governance Implementations and its Impact on Business/IT Alignment (2009, background): “They also stress it is important to not only list potential antecedents of alignment (as other research efforts did), but to also identify relationships between them and towards alignment (Chan & Reich, 2007).”
Complementarities Between Organizational IT Architecture and Governance Structure (2010, background): “IT alignment is defined as the degree to which the IT function supports the goals and priorities of an organization's line functions (Chan and Reich 2007, Sabherwal et al. 2001).”