Business and IT alignment: What we know and what we don't know

Proceedings - 2009 International Conference on Information Management and Engineering, ICIME 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 558-563

  Silvius, A J Gilbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business and it alignment; IT strategy

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS AND IT ALIGNMENT; BUSINESS NEEDS; BUSINESS STRATEGY; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; IT ALIGNMENT; IT CAPABILITIES; IT STRATEGY; KEY SUCCESS FACTORS;

ALIGNMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 70349503826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIME.2009.125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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