Abstract
Previous chapters described what Enterprise Governance of IT is about and how a set of practices can be leveraged to implement Enterprise Governance of IT. In this chapter, the impact of Enterprise Governance of IT implementations on business/IT alignment will be discussed. The first question is how an organization can measure and evaluate its current status of business/IT alignment. This discussion has supplemented a study that illustrates the relationship between Enterprise Governance of IT and alignment, and an exploration of the impact of cultural issues on alignment maturity.
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We want to express our gratitude to Dr. Gilbert Silvius for working with us on understanding the cultural dimension of business/IT alignment.
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De Haes, S., Van Grembergen, W. (2015). Business/IT Alignment. In: Enterprise Governance of Information Technology. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14547-1_3
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