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Barriers in Business-IT Alignment in a Large Company in Manufacturing Area

Barriers in Business-IT Alignment in a Large Company in Manufacturing Area

Fadi Shammas, Guanjie Meng, Lazar Rusu
Copyright: © 2020 |Volume: 11 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 13
ISSN: 1947-8305|EISSN: 1947-8313|EISBN13: 9781522599784|DOI: 10.4018/IJIDE.2020040101
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Shammas, Fadi, et al. "Barriers in Business-IT Alignment in a Large Company in Manufacturing Area." IJIDE vol.11, no.2 2020: pp.1-13. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJIDE.2020040101

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Shammas, F., Meng, G., & Rusu, L. (2020). Barriers in Business-IT Alignment in a Large Company in Manufacturing Area. International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy (IJIDE), 11(2), 1-13. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJIDE.2020040101

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Shammas, Fadi, Guanjie Meng, and Lazar Rusu. "Barriers in Business-IT Alignment in a Large Company in Manufacturing Area," International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy (IJIDE) 11, no.2: 1-13. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJIDE.2020040101

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Abstract

Business-IT alignment (BITA) continues to be a top management concern for the last ten years. Moreover, organizations mangers are still looking to understand the barriers between the status of alignment and misalignment. The barriers in BITA differ from a business area to another and particularly the authors have not found any research studies concerning the barriers in BITA in the manufacturing area in Sweden. Therefore, the research question is: What are the strategic, tactical, and operational barriers in business-IT alignment in a large company in manufacturing area? The research strategy is case study, and the data was collected through semi-structured interviews and also from company's internal documents and it was analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings of this study are a number of thirty barriers in BITA that includes six new barriers in BITA at operational, tactical and strategic level.

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