The Alignment of IT and Business Strategy at ROC Leeuwenborgh

Abstract

The alignment of IT and business strategy plays important role to achieve company goals. Indeed, the business and IT performance are tightly coupled, and company cannot be competitive if their business and IT strategies are not aligned. ICT Lyceum ROC Leeuwenborgh tends to have IT strategic plan as a guideline to aligned between IT and business strategy. The main goal of this research is to make a recommendations for the new IT strategy implementation as a part of EA that can support the business goals. In order to create the recommendation, Strategic Information System Planning with Ward and Peppard method has been used. The internal (strengths and weaknesses) and external (opportunities and threats) factors of business and IT of ICT Lyceum have been analyzed based on Applegate L.M. perspective. The perspective contains 3 models analysis: Porter’s Five Forces, McFarlan Strategic Grid, and Strategic Alignment. Afterward, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats were put into a TOWS matrix in order to create the strategies options. Strategies options were being used to create the recommendations of information technology in hardware and software. The findings of the study show that ROC Leeuwenborgh perceive that alignment is important and can bring considerable benefits.