Business and IT alignment answers and remaining questions

PACIS 2009 - 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: IT Services in a Global Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Silvius, A J Gilbert ^a   De Waal, Benny D ^a   Smit, Jakobus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business and IT alignment; IT strategy

Indexed keywords

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

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84855655525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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