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Aligning IT for future business value: conceptualizing it project portfolio alignment

Authors:

Yasser Rahrovani,

Ali Kermanshah,

Alain PinsonneaultAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, Volume 45, Issue 3

Pages 30 - 53

https://doi.org/10.1145/2659254.2659257

Published: 01 August 2014 Publication History

Abstract

IS research has predominately studied the alignment of existing IT applications with current strategies. This provides an assessment of the current business value of IT. However, given IT investments are long-term and given that contemporary firms evolve in highly dynamic environments, it is also important to consider the alignment of IT applications that are under development. These applications affect the future business value of IT. This paper rethinks the notion of alignment to include IT applications in development. It conceptualizes the notion of IT project portfolio alignment and develops and tests a model that measures portfolio alignment in a bottom-up process based on individual IT projects. Several formulation methods are proposed and compared.

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cover image ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems

ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems Volume 45, Issue 3

August 2014

64 pages

ISSN:0095-0033

EISSN:1532-0936

DOI:10.1145/2659254

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