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Seeking Strategic Information Systems Alignment: Facilitators, Obstacles,and Consequences

Posted October 31, 2006 | Leadership | Cutter Benchmark Review

INTRODUCTION

The potential impact of information technology on organizations has increased sharply during the last two decades. IT has come to play a prominent role in organizations, leading to the belief that information systems (IS) strategy should be aligned with the business strategy. Alignment of business and IS has consistently ranked as the most important concern for the CIOs; one reason for this is that strategic IS alignment can enhance not only IS success but organizational success as well.

About The Author
Rajiv Sabherwal
Rajiv Sabherwal is the University of Missouri Curators Professor, the Emory C. Turner Professor of Information Systems, and the Director of the PhD Program in Business Administration at University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Dr. Sabherwal is the former Fulbright-Queen's School of Business Research Chair of knowledge management… Read More
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