How to achieve it business alignment? Investigating the role of business process documentation in US and German banks

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 1525-1532

  Beimborn, Daniel ^a   Hirschheim, Rudy ^b   Schlosser, Frank ^a   Schwarz, Andrew ^b   Weitzel, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business value of IT; IT business alignment; Process documentation

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS VALUE; IT BUSINESS; PROCESS DOCUMENTATION;

DIGITAL STORAGE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 63349098930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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