Business Administration 3300K Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Knowledge Integration, Nomological Network, Corporate Governance Of Information Technology

• School: Western University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: Business Administration 3300K
• Professor: Alexander Miller

Document Summary

It governance mechanisms can facilitate alignment between it strategy thereby leading to higher organisational performance. Resource based view for explaining impact of it governance on strategic alignment. Organisation"s alignment between core business strategy and it strategy is likely to mediate impact of it governance mechanisms on firm performance: it governance mechanisms, three it governance mechanisms: decision-making structures, processes, communication approache. Decision-making structures: organisational units such as committees, executive teas, business/it managers responsible for making it decisions. Formal alignment processes: formal processes such as it investment proposals and evaluations that ensure it alignment with organisational policies. Communication approaches: announcements and channels that spread principles & policies of it governance and decision-making outcomes: influence of governance on strategic alignment. It strategic alignment: how well the content of the realised business strategy matches the content of the realised it strategy; conceptualised as state or and outcome of its antecedents: two dimensions: social & intellectual.