Design of Situational Artefacts - Conceptual Foundations and Their Application to IT/Business Alignment
ISBN
978-1-4419-9790-6
Type
book section
Date Issued
2011
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Pokorny, Jaroslav
Repa, Vaclav
Richta, Karel
Wojtkowski, Wita
Linger, Henry
Barry, Chris
Lang, Michael
Research Team
IWI1
Abstract
IT/business alignment is consistently rated as the #1 problem for CIOs of all kinds and sizes of companies. Although IS research has proposed a plethora of hypotheses and artefacts to explain and approach IT/business alignment problems, the large variety of goals and context factors seem to prevent effective solutions: Since companies face diverse challenges in achieving a high degree of IT/business alignment, a universal one size fits all approach seems not to be appropriate. IT/business alignment is therefore regarded as a class of relevant, important design problems that requires a situational solution approach. The conceptual foundations of situational problem analysis and artefact design are summarized, and a generic approach is proposed that transforms problem analysis into artefact design. The approach is then applied by decomposing the IT/business alignment problem into tangible qualities for business, IT systems, and IT governance. An explorative survey among 174 professionals is used to identify four clusters of IT/business alignment problems which each represent the current state according to certain qualities and also the priorities for future development. Using the proposed situational solution approach, four reference solutions are outlined.
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Information Systems Development : Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development
Publisher
Springer New York
Publisher place
New York, NY
Start page
35
End page
49
Pages
15
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
214462