Operational IT business alignment as the missing link from IT strategy to firm success

Association for Information Systems - 12th Americas Conference On Information Systems, AMCIS 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 560-568

  Wagner, Heinz Theo ^a   Weitzel, Tim ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business renewability; Competitive advantage; It renewability; Operational alignment; Strategic alignment

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS OBJECTIVES; BUSINESS STRATEGY; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; FIRM PERFORMANCE; FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION; IT BUSINESS; IT KNOWLEDGE; IT RENEWABILITY; IT STRATEGIES; IT STRUCTURES; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

COMPETITION; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84870050619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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