Avoiding the Alignment Trap in Information Technology 1 About the Case • Article in “MIT Sloan Management Review” • Article is prepared based on survey of more than 500 senior • • business & technology executives and in-depth interview of 30 CIOs. The principle findings of the study is that even at companies that were focused on alignment‚ business performance dependent on IT sometimes went sideways‚ or even declined. Article talks about two primary factors for success in IT: • • Alignment
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This case analysis discusses the findings in the article ‘Avoiding the Alignment Trap’‚ where even though most companies are aware that IT must be aligned with business strategy in terms of aligning IT expenses with revenue growth‚ over 11% of companies that align IT with business strategy spend more than 13% on average on IT expenses with a resulting of less than 14% average in revenue growth. The objective of this case analysis is to recommend a governance arrangement that
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CASE STUDY: AVOIDING THE ALIGNMENT TRAP IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Executive Summary An alarming pattern has surfaced in that many companies are concentrating on alignment and are finding that their performance is either declining or moving sideways. Companies are focusing on the wrong solutions with respect to their Information Technology problems‚ resulting in severe bottlenecks to growth. Companies need to learn how to break out of the trap and build IT organizations that allow for growth
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summary The case “avoiding the alignment trap in information Technology” is concerned with application of information technology in different manufacturing and service companies in order to integration of all the department like production ‚R&D‚ marketing ‚human resource ‚logistics‚ finance for Facilitates planning‚ Encourages Decentralization ‚ brings Co ordination‚ makes control easier‚ assembles‚ process ‚ stores ‚ Retrieves ‚ evaluates and Disseminates the information. Case discussed about
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(1996). Some Empirical Evidence on IS Strategy. Alignment in banking‚ Information & Management‚ vol. 30‚ no. 4‚ pp. 155–177. III. Bergeron‚ F.‚ Raymond‚ L. and Rivard‚ S. (2004). Ideal Patterns of Strategic Alignment and Business Performance‚ Information & Management 41(8): 1003–1020. IV. Chan‚ Y.E. and Huff‚ S.L. (1993). Investigating Information Systems Strategic Alignment‚ Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Information Systems‚ Orlando‚ FL. 345–363. V. Chan‚ Yolande
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Strategic Alignment: Leveraging Information Technology for transforming Organizations Based on the paper of J.C. Henderson‚ N. Venkatraman (1993) by Philipp Maderthaner A. Summary Henderson and Venkatraman proposed a model for business IT alignment; it was intended to support the integration of information technology (IT) into business strategy by advocating alignment between and within four domains (see figure 1). The inter-domain alignment is pursued along two dimensions: strategic fit (between
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Information Technology Daniel Fitzpatrick HCS/490 Rachelle Young June 21‚ 2012 The use of health communication and health information technology to improve the population health outcomes and health are quality‚ and to achieve health fairness. Both need to work properly with each other to makes the system work correctly for patients and providers. I will try to write about the importance and the advantages and disadvantages of communication and information technology. Many ideas about health
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The Impact of Information Technology Infrastructure Flexibility on Strategic Alignment and Applications Implementation Sock H. Chung Department of Computer Information Systems College of Business Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti‚ MI 48197 sock.chung@banyan.emich.edu R. Kelly Rainer‚ Jr. ** Department of Management College of Business Auburn University Auburn‚ Alabama 36849 (334) 844-6527 rainer@business.auburn.edu Bruce R. Lewis Calloway School of Business Wake Forest
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Information Technology Introduction According to Ford (1992)‚ Information technology is the development‚ implementation‚ and maintenance of computer hardware and software systems to organize and communicate information electronically. In this paper‚ I will discuss what is information technology‚ current problems in IT‚ how to protect information in an IT environment‚ and the effectiveness of the protection. What is information technology? Information Technology (IT) is concerned with the use
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Safety Hardware Management Practices in the United States Prepared by Sunil Madanu‚ Graduate Research Assistant Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology and Zongzhi Li‚ Principal Investigator Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology 3201 South Dearborn Street Chicago‚ Illinois 60616 Phone: (312) 567-3556 Fax: (312) 567-3519 Email: lizz@iit.edu June 30‚ 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION..............
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