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    Can ITIL contribute to IT/business alignment? An initial investigation
    (Wirtschaftsinformatik: Vol. 48, No. 5, 2006) Kashanchi, Ramisa; Toland, Janet
    Strategic alignment has been viewed as one of the main concerns of management and IT executives. Organizations have realized that in order to achieve competitive advantage, IT needs to be strategically aligned with business objectives. Strategic alignment enables organizations to choose IT applications that meet their needs and as a result, to enhance their profitability and reduce costs. Despite the importance of this matter and a large body of literature written on this subject, it has not yet been identified how it can be successfully achieved and maintained. This paper attempts to provide insight on this matter by investigating an initiative called Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), which ensures the effective and efficient delivery of IT services. The intention of this research was to identify how effective ITIL was in improving alignment between IT and business objectives.The Strategic Alignment Model (SAM) developed by Henderson and Venkatraman was used for this research. This consists of four parts: IT strategy; business strategy; organizational infrastructure and processes; and IS infrastructure and processes. By placing ITIL in the internal domain of the model as a substitute for the IS infrastructure and processes it has been identified that it has the ability to impact the other three main areas of the model and as result enables alignment between all the four parts of model to be achieved.In addition to the above an empirical study has been conducted in order to further investigate the ability of ITIL in achieving alignment between IT and business objectives. Four participants have been interviewed from three organizations ranging from education and banking to the IT sector. The results of the research indicate that ITIL has potential as an effective approach in achieving alignment.
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    Governance im IT-Portfoliomanagement – Ein Ansatz zur Berücksichtigung von Strategic Alignment bei der Bewertung von IT
    (Wirtschaftsinformatik: Vol. 50, No. 5, 2008) Zimmermann, Steffen
    In vielen Unternehmen der Dienstleistungsbranche bilden IT-Kosten nach den Personalkosten den zweitgrößten Kostenblock. Auch in anderen Branchen nehmen sie stetig zu. Wenn viele IT-Investitionen die geplanten Ziele nicht erreichen, dann führt dies bei einem steigenden Investitionsvolumen zu einer (noch) höheren „Mittelverschwendung“. Gründe hierfür sind u. a. in einer Fehlallokation von Ressourcen infolge unzureichender Methoden im IT-Portfoliomanagement zu suchen. Um bei der Gestaltung solcher Methoden den aus der IT-Governance abgeleiteten Anforderungen an ein IT-Portfoliomanagement gerecht zu werden, ist dabei neben erwartetem Ertrag und Risiko auch das Strategic Alignment von IT-Investitionen zu berücksichtigen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird ein Ansatz zur Quantifizierung des Strategic Alignments vorgeschlagen, wonach erläutert wird, wie dieses bei der Auswahl des Portfolios mit dem höchsten Wertbeitrag berücksichtigt werden kann.AbstractIT costs are the second biggest cost component in service industries, topped only by HR costs. They are steadily increasing in other industries as well. At the same time, many IT investments do not achieve their objectives due to inadequate methods in IT assessment implying bad allocation of resources. To meet the requirements of ITPM methods deduced from the main focuses of IT-Governance the consideration of strategic alignment in calculating the value propositions of IT Portfolios is essential. Against this backdrop, an approach to quantify strategic alignment and to consider it in determining the value of an IT Portfolio is presented in this paper.
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    Internetressourcen zu IT/Business Alignment
    (Wirtschaftsinformatik: Vol. 48, No. 5, 2006) Gericke, Anke; Stutz, Matthias
    IT/Business Alignment IT/Business Alignment has become a key issue for many companies. Therefore a lot of companies, institutions and universities have published documents about this topic. This paper is intended to give an overview of these resources found in the Internet.