Managers' Attitude towards the Alignment of IT and Business Strategy

This book consider Business-IT strategic alignment as one of the most important management concepts in business and IT management in industry as result of drastic rise in role of IS and IT in industry.This empirical research tests to the degree of balance between business and IT strategies.Consequently, we defined and clarified the concepts of strategic alignment and alignment gap between business strategy and IT strategy and to determine the reasons and circumstances that lead to the alignment gap between business strategy and IT strategy.Meanwhile,based on literature and findings of the research, the results indicate that bridging the alignment gap between business strategy and IT strategy will help organizations to achieve and sustain strategic alignment