An Intangible-Asset Approach to Strategic Business-IT Alignment

Miguel Tejada-Malaspina; Alberto Un Jan

doi:10.3390/systems7010017

An Intangible-Asset Approach to Strategic Business-IT Alignment

Miguel Tejada-Malaspina
, Alberto Un Jan

Systems Engineering School

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Abstract

The correct use of information technology (IT) in business is a longstanding critical issue due to the competitive advantages and performance that IT generates when it is managed strategically and correctly aligned with a business’ strategies and processes. A conceptual model is presented to investigate the effects of intangible assets and organizational capabilities on business-IT strategic alignment. Social networks between business and IT executives conform to relational capital that permits the creation of combinative capabilities; these capabilities encourage the transfer, integration, learning, and strategic use of business and IT executives’ knowledge, and affect the level of strategic business-IT alignment. This combination of social-network characteristics and organizational capabilities in order to generate strategic business-IT alignment is new.

Original language	English
Journal	Systems
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/systems7010017
State	Published - 21 Mar 2019

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intangible assets
organizational capabilities
knowledge management
strategic business-IT alignment

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