Dive deep into the renowned Strategic Alignment Model, a key tool for CIOs. Learn how it bridges the gap between IT initiatives and overarching business strategies, ensuring seamless collaboration and maximizing ROI.
This paper discusses the implementation of a balanced scorecard using automated tools – why is the balanced scorecard important for an organization? how can automation help in realizing benefits from a balanced scorecard? what are the essential technology features for a successful balanced scorecard tool?
Tradition Information Systems Strategic Planning (ISSP) develops IT strategy for a business, or business unit. This case study demonstrates the use of IT strategic planning for strategic business processes – it illustrates the definition of Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and Information System Needs (lSN) on Strategic Business Processes instead of Strategic Business Units.
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."
The authors argue that organizations pay lip service to IT investment management – they insist on a business case for every IT investment but do not apply the rigor to what is contained in it. The resulting lack of IT investment results is both expected and can be fixed using a better business case framework developed by the authors.
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! 
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.
The pressure on CIOs to cut costs increases in economic downturns. The authors argue that a CIOs who focus on "holistic performance optimization" addressing all levers of performance produce higher long term business results and introduce a "performance radar" to put these levers in perspective.
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. 
