Understanding the Role of Business – IT Alignment in Organisational Agility

Charles Crick, Eng Chew

2014

Abstract

Extant research shows business-IT alignment to be both an enabler and inhibitor of overall organisational agility and has pointed to the need for finer grained perspectives to fully elucidate the relationship. This paper posits the view that, firstly, current approaches to reasoning about where rigidities are present that are preventing organisational agility are lacking in both granularity and sound ontology. Secondly, that in order to obtain the necessary granular view, the socio-technical dimension of the business-IT relationship must be examined. An initial conceptual model behind ongoing research into this topical problem area is presented.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Crick C. and Chew E. (2014). Understanding the Role of Business – IT Alignment in Organisational Agility . In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-029-1, pages 459-464. DOI: 10.5220/0004954404590464

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis14,
author={Charles Crick and Eng Chew},
title={Understanding the Role of Business – IT Alignment in Organisational Agility},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2014},
pages={459-464},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004954404590464},
isbn={978-989-758-029-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Understanding the Role of Business – IT Alignment in Organisational Agility
SN - 978-989-758-029-1
AU - Crick C.
AU - Chew E.
PY - 2014
SP - 459
EP - 464
DO - 10.5220/0004954404590464