A conceptual framework for aligning business and information systems from organisational learning perspective

Balhareth, H. and Liu, K. (2012) A conceptual framework for aligning business and information systems from organisational learning perspective. In: Linger, H., Fisher, J., Barnden, A., Barry, C., Lang, M. and Schneider, C. (eds.) Building Sustainable Information Systems. Springer. ISBN 9781461475392

Abstract/Summary

The three decades of on-going executives’ concerns of how to achieve successful alignment between business and information technology shows the complexity of such a vital process. Most of the challenges of alignment are related to knowledge and organisational change and several researchers have introduced a number of mechanisms to address some of these challenges. However, these mechanisms pay less attention to multi-level effects, which results in a limited un-derstanding of alignment across levels. Therefore, we reviewed these challenges from a multi-level learning perspective and found that business and IT alignment is related to the balance of exploitation and exploration strategies with the intellec-tual content of individual, group and organisational levels.

Additional Information	Paper originally presented at the 21st International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2012), Prato Italy
Item Type	Book or Report Section
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/32205
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > Digitalisation, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Additional Information	Paper originally presented at the 21st International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2012), Prato Italy
Publisher	Springer
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