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Business and IT Alignment: An IT Governance Perspective

This presentation provides a very good overview of business and information technology alignment – definition, imperative and process – and IT governance – what is it? why is it important? how to implement it using a framework?

Business Relationship Management Framework

This paper introduces a structured framework for business relationship management – to optimize the relationship between business and IT – and discusses an approach to implement it. A Structured Approach to Implementing a Business Relationship Management Framework.

Introduction to Gartner Business Value Model

This paper introduces Gartner’s business value model is a framework to measure business performance – designed to help business IT alignment, project portfolio prioritization, and communicating the value of IT to the business. The Business Value Model supports the Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma, Economic Value Added, agility and other methodologies.

A Unified Framework for Business IT Alignment

This paper introduces a unified framework for business and information technology alignment (BITA). The authors contend that business it alignment is a nebulous concept and for it to work we need a new framework – one that integrates information management with enterprise architecture.

IT Strategy to Harness the Cloud

This whitepaper discusses the changes to IT capability – from strategy to organization and people – required to harness cloud computing. The authors argue that the competitive advantage in information technology infrastructure is diminishing with the cloud so the need is now to focus on the business advantages from using IT.

A New Framework for Business IT Alignment

This paper presents a new framework for business it alignment to understand a specific alignment goal and implement alignment processes efficiently and effectively. It discusses the results of a study using this framework and its key conclusion: business it alignment and business process re-engineering are related to the company’s organizational

A Metamodel for Business IT Alignment Assessment

This paper proposes a metamodel based on Jerry N. Luftman’s strategic business and information technology (IT) alignment assessment approach and connects it to enterprise architecture planning.

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