Investigating business-IT alignment through multi-disciplinary goal concepts

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 177-207

  Singh, Sase Narine ^a   Woo, Carson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business IT alignment; Goal based frameworks; Requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS STRATEGY; BUSINESS-IT ALIGNMENT; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; GOAL CONCEPT; GOAL-BASED FRAMEWORKS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY; STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT; STRATEGIC BUSINESS; STRATEGIC LEVEL; SYSTEM FAILURES;

ALIGNMENT; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; RESEARCH; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 67650306640     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00766-009-0081-0     Document Type: Article

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