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A framework for integrating IT governance and business/IT alignment principles

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  • Wesley In Der Maur
  • Wouter Van Walbeek
  • Ronald Batenburg

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Highly information-intensive organisations such as retail banks continuously struggle with the key issues of controlling their IT-value and achieving business-IT alignment. One main reason might be that decision makers in retail banks do not use methods to plan or improve their business-IT alignment. This study provides such a method, combining principles of two well known concepts: IT governance and strategic alignment. The developed framework provides an allocation scheme for dividing strategic IT decisions between the business and IT domain by describing practical concepts to tackle the business-IT alignment enigma. The framework is validated by interviewing a number of experts from Dutch retail banks that are strongly challenged to optimise their IT value through business-IT alignment. The validation study largely supports the applicability of the framework. Furthermore, this study provides a window of opportunities to apply it to other industries, countries or specific IS/IT applications.

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  • Wesley In Der Maur & Wouter Van Walbeek & Ronald Batenburg, 2009. "A framework for integrating IT governance and business/IT alignment principles," International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 3(5), pages 555-573.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbire:v:3:y:2009:i:5:p:555-573
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