The five-stage process summarizes the steps for a successful IT strategic alignment in multinational corporations (MNCs.) The process has five stages, each of which is associated with one of the nine reasons explaining IT projects failure.
The steps are:
(a) clarifying the strategic business orientation,
(b) developing leadership competencies of business and IT managers,
(c) sharing knowledge,
(d) strategically planning IT projects, and
(e) strategically managing IT and technological changes.
The five-stage process of IT strategic alignment covers process and content perspectives of the interrelationship between business and IT in MNCs. The process perspective includes the following dimensions: (a) intellectual and social, (b) short- and long-term, (c) shared domain knowledge, and (d) enablers and inhibitors. The content perspective focused on the strategic orientation of business enterprises and the strategic orientation of the existing portfolio of information systems.
Kindly please send me an invitation to connect to download the five-stage process of business-IT strategic alignment from the Slideshare presentations on my LinkedIn profile. You can also join the Business-IT Strategic Alignment community and share your experience using LinkedIn.
Source: From Aligning IT to Business: A Roadmap by Alain Nkoyock, Barry K. Spiker, Thomas Schmidt, and Craig Martin. Copyright © 2010 by Alain Nkoyock.
88 replies on “Aligning IT to Business in MNCs: The Five-Stage Process”
Dear brother, It is really needed topic. You will find with advent of cloud computing organizations will also be considering the steps of virtualization and consolidation. In this process they optimize utilization of resources and reduce costs and changing their business propositions. If you need further info on role of cloud computing kindly tell me i will send you latest presentation by different experts recently held at IITMadras.
Wishing you all the best.
Yours sincerely,
KPrabhakar
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My dear brother Prabhakar,
Nice feedback with thanks.
Kindly please share with me the presentation on cloud computing.
I agree with your statement on virtalization and consolidation. We are currently implementing VMWARE ESX technology in my organization and acknowledging the benefits.
I have also recently published a post entitled “GIS, Virtualization, and Environmental Uncertainty – Part I” (see http://blog.nkoyock.net/?p=38).
Kindly please let me know the upcoming events on this topic you are organizing from your end for a possible collaboration.
Best regards
Alain
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