ABSTRACT
Achieving strategic alignment between the IS organization and the business has been a top IS management issue for more than a decade. In the past, achieving strategic IT alignment was expected to result primarily from a periodic IT planning process. Today, however, the emphasis is on a continuous assessment of the alignment of IT investments in not only systems, but also IT people and IT processes. Given the high rate of change in today’s hyper-competitive environments, achieving strategic IT alignment needs to also be viewed as a goal to continually aspire to, not necessarily an end state.
