Abstract
IT/business strategy alignment is still a crucial issue for managers worldwide; how to deal with environmentalchange has been considered to be the key challenge to strategy alignment. Uncertain and dynamically changingenvironments require organizations to maintain a high level of alignment with a high risk of IT investment. Tomaintain this alignment, organizations must learn how to make their management information systems (MISs)sufficiently flexible; therefore, previous studies suggest the importance of MIS flexibility. Nevertheless, thereare few studies that explore the practical method of MIS flexibility planning for IT/business strategy alignment.Therefore, Part 1 of this series discusses the meaning of MIS flexibility for this alignment, while Part 2 proposesa scheme to make MISs sufficiently flexible.The proposed concept of the penalty of change (POC), as a function of cost and time, could bridge the gapbetween IT and business strategies in practice. This paper presents a scheme for the strategic planning of MISflexibility by overhauling the IT infrastructure via future-oriented POC analysis. Using this procedure andmonitoring the degree of MIS flexibility and alignment in the long term would reduce risks and could transformthe corporate MIS into a useful tool to address environmental changes.
Highlights
Nowadays, an organization’s success depends heavily on information technology (IT) because many organizations rely on their management information systems (MISs)
This paper presents a scheme for the strategic planning of MIS flexibility by overhauling the IT infrastructure via future-oriented penalty of change (POC) analysis
We have explored the simplicity that should be built into MIS flexibility by a proper overhauling of the IT infrastructure
Summary
An organization’s success depends heavily on information technology (IT) because many organizations rely on their management information systems (MISs) Organizations, especially their MIS managers, struggle to bridge the huge gap between their business strategy and the IT being implemented to achieve maximumoutput from their MIS. This paper will explore the mechanism of IT/business strategy alignment and present a practical, strategic planning scheme for MISs whereby a future-oriented POC analysis is employed to overhaul the IT infrastructure.
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