Can the CEO, CFO, CMO, CPO, and the CIO envision the same future for the information technology capability of the organization? Is it possible? Is it necessary? Does it help? The authors present a framework to make this shared vision for IT possible and useful! 
Does organizational culture help or hinder business IT alignment? The authors’ research shows that "firms with more congruent cultures had higher levels of strategic alignment maturity."
This research paper examines the impact of six factors on business it alignment (strategic alignment) namely, leadership, values and belief, IT managerial resources, service quality, and IT implementation success.
Does SOA live up to its promise of enabling business it alignment? Authors argue that SOA has not lived up to its promise however, "IT infrastructure flexibility is a potential enabler of IT-Business strategic alignment under conditions of a dynamic external environment."
This presentation discusses environmental assessment – with a focus on business model analysis – for better business it alignment. 
This paper presents a model of interrelationships between inhibitors and enablers of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) and reports on a pilot case study that investigated enablers and inhibitors of SISP in a large Korean corporation. The study demonstrated close relationships between enablers and inhibitors and benefits of SISP.
The author’s research hints at three things with business it alignment: 1) alignment improves organizational performance 2) formal organizational structure alignment does not help 3) informal organizational alignment does have a positive impact!
The authors’ research provides interesting insight into business it alignment: There is no silver bullet to business it alignment Business it alignment requires six interrelated
This Information Technology Strategic Plan sample (U of Utah) provides a good template to build an IT Strategy.
This paper discusses and describes the development and implementation of a departmental BSC within an Information Services Division (ISD) of a Canadian financial group. It also uses an IT BSC maturity model to determine the maturity level of the IT BSC under review.
