De profundis? Deconstructing the concept of strategic alignment

Abstract

Hugo von Hofmannstahl Letter to Lord Chandos (1902) 1. An introductory chronicle 1991 The results of the MIT research program “Management in the 1990s” are published (Scott Morton 1991). Among them, a rudimentary framework, whereby information technology (IT) is regarded as a variable linked with others such as strategy, organization, culture...The diamond diagram gains widespread following in the profession. 1993 A special issue of the IBM Systems Journal features a series of articles on the concept of “strategic alignment,” including the leading article by Henderson and Venkatraman (1993), who develop the idea, starting from their research within the Management in the 1990s project, thanks to a grant from the IBM Consulting Group. One of the papers, by Broadbent and Weill (1993), reports an empirical study on strategic De profundis? Deconstructing the concept of strategic alignment