TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparing the approaches of small, medium, and large organisations in achieving IT and business alignment
AU - Shihab, Muhammad Rifki
AU - Rahardian, Ikhsan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This research aims to identify whether small, medium and large organisations employ different approaches in achieving IT and business alignment. The strategic alignment maturity (SAM) model was utilised as the basis for evaluation. The respondents of this research were 107 different organisations representing small, medium and large businesses with diverse industry backgrounds ranging from those in creative industries to those in manufacturing, computing, and even telecommunication providers. Through six different ANOVA tests, this research has confirmed that organisations of different scales significantly differ in the way they approach alignment. Furthermore, this research looked deeper using multiple comparisons and analysed whether the three organisational scales employ the SAM model dimensions and their attributes differently. The results were akin, in almost all cases, small and medium sized organisations shared the same approaches towards attaining alignment with each other, and differed when compared to the approaches of large organisations.
AB - This research aims to identify whether small, medium and large organisations employ different approaches in achieving IT and business alignment. The strategic alignment maturity (SAM) model was utilised as the basis for evaluation. The respondents of this research were 107 different organisations representing small, medium and large businesses with diverse industry backgrounds ranging from those in creative industries to those in manufacturing, computing, and even telecommunication providers. Through six different ANOVA tests, this research has confirmed that organisations of different scales significantly differ in the way they approach alignment. Furthermore, this research looked deeper using multiple comparisons and analysed whether the three organisational scales employ the SAM model dimensions and their attributes differently. The results were akin, in almost all cases, small and medium sized organisations shared the same approaches towards attaining alignment with each other, and differed when compared to the approaches of large organisations.
KW - ANOVA
KW - Alignment
KW - Analysis of variance
KW - IT alignment
KW - IT governance
KW - Large organisations
KW - Medium organisations
KW - SMEs
KW - Small and medium sized enterprise
KW - Small organisations
KW - Strategic alignment maturity model
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U2 - 10.1504/IJBIS.2017.081449
DO - 10.1504/IJBIS.2017.081449
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85009193451
SN - 1746-0972
VL - 24
SP - 227
EP - 241
JO - International Journal of Business Information Systems
JF - International Journal of Business Information Systems
IS - 2
ER -