Alignment Between Business and IS Strategies: A Study of Prospectors, Analyzers, and Defenders

By Rajiv Sabherwal, Yolande E. Chan. Information systems research, 2001

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Information Processing View of Organizations: An Exploratory Examination of Fit in the Context of Interorganizational Relationships (2005, background): “Further, the concept of fit, which is popular in strategy research [59], has been explored only to a limited extent in information systems (IS) research, primarily on alignment of IS strategic plan with business plan, and task–technology fit [35, 51].”
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].”
Ideal patterns of strategic alignment and business performance (2004, methodology): “More recently, using a bivariate "profile deviation" alignment perspective, no significant relationship was found between coalignment and performance for organizations whose strategie activities were minimal in terms of aggressiveness, proactiveness, and analysis [62].”
Antecedents and outcomes of strategic IS alignment: an empirical investigation (2006, methodology): “Empirical studies have found IS strategic alignment—which is defined as the degree to which the mission, objectives and plans contained in the business strategy are shared and supported by the IS strategy [54]—to influence business performance [31], [56].”
Digital human resource management: A conceptual clarification (2020, background): “…an example, organizations adopting a “prospector” strategy profit from analytical technologies (e.g. data warehouses offering systematic information about markets) while those adopting other business strategies cannot capitalize on such technologies in the same way (e.g. Sabherwal and Chan, 2001).”
IT alignment: what have we learned? (2007, methodology): “Sabherwal and Chan (2001) use the Miles and Snow (1978) strategy typology to measure business strategy, predict the appropriate IT strategy, and assess alignment.”
Supply chain information systems strategy: Impacts on supply chain performance and firm performance (2014, methodology): “Accordingly, Sabherwal and Chan (2001) describe IS for Efficiency IS strategy and IS for Flexibility IS strategy.”
A Process-Oriented Perspective on the Alignment of Information Technology and Business Strategy (2007, methodology): “There may be little or no variability in terms of ﬁrm-level alignment between ﬁrms with different strategic foci, as noted in past studies of alignment among specialty retailers by Palmer and Markus [51] and in a broader multi-industry study by Chan et al. [14] and Sabherwal and Chan [63].”