Strategic Alignment for Business Value Creation

Strategic Alignment for Business Value Creation

Eng K. Chew, Petter Gottschalk
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 36
ISBN13: 9781599048024|ISBN10: 1599048027|EISBN13: 9781599048055
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-802-4.ch005
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Eng K. Chew and Petter Gottschalk. "Strategic Alignment for Business Value Creation." Information Technology Strategy and Management: Best Practices, IGI Global, 2009, pp.131-166. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-802-4.ch005

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E. Chew & P. Gottschalk (2009). Strategic Alignment for Business Value Creation. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-802-4.ch005

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Eng K. Chew and Petter Gottschalk. "Strategic Alignment for Business Value Creation." In Information Technology Strategy and Management: Best Practices. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-802-4.ch005

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Abstract

Chapter IV defines the macromodel for achieving business/IT alignment. This chapter defines the detailed methodology for each step of the IT strategy process. First, the business strategy process must be methodical and able to clearly show the linkage between corporate strategic intents and the respective specific business functional plans for realizing the intents. For example, for a specific productivity goal defined for the corporation, the respective initiatives planned for sales and marketing, and those for supply chain management must be clearly linked and explicitly correlated in a “cause-and-effect” manner. A good method invented by Norton and Kaplan called strategy map is an effective tool for this purpose. This chapter reviews the basic principles of IT strategy. It briefly discusses various models used to analyze or describe disparate parts of strategic alignment. These strategic alignment models are contrasted with our end-to-end alignment model for defining and executing business-aligned IT strategy. It shows that our model has integrated all the individual disparate alignment elements proposed by these models. Further, it shows our model has addressed some key requirements which have either not been considered or only partially considered by some of these models. The main strengths of our model compared to previous work are twofold: (a) it addresses all alignment elements in an integrated fashion to make them meaningful and useful for practitioners; and (b) it addresses the full life cycle of strategic alignment from direction setting to strategic outcome monitoring and ongoing feedback loop for self-adjusted alignment (aided by architecture principles and IT governance).

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