Developing a taxonomy for the understanding of business and IT alignment paradigms and tools

16th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gutierrez, Anabel ^a   Orozco, Jorge ^a   Papazafeiropoulou, Anastasia ^a   Serrano, Alan ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alignment assessment; IS planning; Strategic alignment

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS OBJECTIVES; IS PLANNING; IT ALIGNMENT; STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT; THEORETICAL BASIS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TAXONOMIES;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84870651419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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