Strategic alignment: a practitioner's perspective

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 653-664

  Campbell, Bruce ^a   Kay, Robert ^a   Avison, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Focus groups; Information systems; Strategic alignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844487915     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410390510628364     Document Type: Article

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