IT governance practices for improving strategic and operational business-IT alignment

PACIS 2011 - 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Quality Research in Pacific

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Schlosser, Frank ^a   Wagner, Heinz Theo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b German Graduate School of Management and Law (GGS)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business IT alignment; Case study; Governance mechanisms; IT governance

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS-IT ALIGNMENT; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE; IS SUCCESS; IT GOVERNANCE; IT SERVICES; OPERATIONAL LEVEL; RELATIONAL MECHANISMS;

COMPETITION; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84855841416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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