Still another has required examining the fit between business needs and information system priorities. Another perspective involved ensuring congruence between the business strategy and the IT strategy. In early studies, this often meant linking the business plan and the IT plan. In closing, we provide reflections on the IT alignment research stream to date and highlight key implications for research and practice.įor many years, researchers have drawn attention to the importance of alignment between business and IT Footnote 2 (e.g., McLean and Soden, 1977 Henderson and Sifonis, 1988). We address the questions: What creates alignment? What benefits can reasonably be expected? Next, we present a process perspective on alignment and comment on different process models that have been researched. We then present a review of various factor models of alignment and discuss antecedents and outcomes. Our goal is to be inclusive of many different perspectives. Next, we move on to define alignment and to present key dimensions and levels of the alignment construct. In the article, we first discuss the motivation for alignment research.
Welcome to a conversation on IT alignment. Via the Journal of Information Technology and AISWorld ( ), we will summarize the feedback and stories we receive. We invite scholars and practitioners to contact the authors to provide additional information, similar and contrary views, and case studies. Our goal is to be as inclusive of major alignment perspectives as possible. Challenges to the value of alignment research, divergent views and new perspectives on alignment are presented. We have tried to be both informational and provocative. For the latter, we also suggest ways to interpret the literature and implement research recommendations. In addition, we present the ‘state-of-play’ in alignment practice for lecturers and practitioners. For lecturers, we present alignment models that can be used in IT strategy classes to explain key concepts. For research, we suggest where future contributions might be made. Researchers, teachers, and practitioners alike should find this integration of the literature beneficial. In this article, we focus on the alignment literature within the MIS research discipline, reviewing past articles – primarily of a scholarly nature – and proposing integrating views. Many scholarly journal articles have been published. Hundreds of commentaries and cases have been published in trade publications. For two decades, IT alignment has consistently appeared as a top concern for IT practitioners and company executives ( Luftman et al., 2005).
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