Digitising Enterprise in an Information Age

David L. Olson, Subodh Kesharwani

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781000432954
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Intelligence
• Index: Business

Digitising Enterprise in an Information Age is an effort that focuses on a very vast cluster of Enterprises and their digitising technology involvement and take us through the road map of the implementation process in them, some of them being ICT, Banking, Stock Markets, Textile Industry & ICT, Social Media, Software Quality Assurance, Information Systems Security and Risk Management, Employee Resource Planning etc. It delves on increased instances of cyber spamming and the threat that poses to e-Commerce and Banking and tools that help and Enterprise toward of such threats. To quote Confucius, "As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so does a wise man adapts himself to circumstances." And the journey of evolution and progression will continue and institutions and enterprises will continue to become smarter and more and more technology savvy. Enterprises and businesses across all genre and spectrum are trying their level best to adopt to change and move on with the changing requirements of technology and as enterprises and companies upgrade and speed up their digital transformations and move their outdate heirloom systems to the cloud, archaic partners that don't keep up will be left behind.

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Part 1
Information System

1
Contemporary Research Issues in Business—IT Alignment

Himanshu Aggarwal¹

The importance and the Strategic (Business and information technology (FI) alignment has been wed established For die past 20 years the researchers and practitioners are working hard for achieving alignment In this chapter an effort has been made to emphasize the need and importance of strategic alignment derive its definition from research literature and explore various contemporary research issues. Design/ Methodology/Approach: In this chapter an attempt has been made to conceptualize and present die various research issues with their meanings and notions adopted By various researchers in this field. These will help those researchers who want to pursue research in this field. Research limitations/Implications: The study is Based on few research articles only. It is possible to identify more research By more intensively reviewing the existing research literature. Originality/Value: This is important because the many research issues in this research area have contradictory and chaotic existence. Here the authors have a strong notion that presently there is a shortage of research articles in die existing literature presenting these research issues in a systematic and comprehensive manner.

KEYWORDS Business | IT | SIM | Strategic | Research

1.1 INTRODUCTION

The existing research literature reveals that strategic alignment is imperative for the business organizations to survive and compete in the market. Yet achieving alignment continues to be a major concern for the business executives. Strategic alignment boosts the IT effectiveness (Porter, 1 987; Galliers, 1991; Ciborra, 1997), leading to business profitability (Luftman, 1996). Therefore, alignment has been a major concern for the academicians, practitioners, business consultants and research organizations since 1990's. Such an effort has been highlighted by a recent study conducted by Society for Information Management (SIM). The study has identified alignment as the first management concern among all groups surveyed for the Top 10 concerns that included 300 senior IT managers (Trainor, 2003). Galliers and Newell (2003) call it a central tenant of much of the theory and practice of Information System (IS) strategy. Further the importance of alignment has been reinforced by several industrial surveys that reveal executives" perceptions of alignment (Head, 2000; Kennedy, 2000; Weil, 2001). Therefore, the managers and practitioners have been continuously making efforts to identify and device new strategies for achieving alignment between Business and IT.

¹ Department of Computer Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala

The research in the area is primarily conceptual and lacks practical considerations (Campbell, Kay and Avison, 2005). There is little agreement on 'how to achieve alignment' and 'how it should be researched' but there are many studies on 'how to practice alignment'. Luftman (1996), Hsaio and Omerod (1998) and Burn (1997) provide some practical aspects of implementation of alignment through enablers and inhibitors of alignment. However, the literature provides little guidance on how to achieve alignment between Business and IT strategies. Also, the j...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Preface
• PART 1: INFORMATION SYSTEM
• PART 2: ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING AND SUSTAINABILITY
• PART 3: CYBER, SECURITY & THREAT