The leveraging influence of strategic alignment on IT investment: An empirical examination
Information & ManagementPublished 7 November 2005
Terry Anthony Byrd, Bruce R. Lewis, Robert W. Bryan
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The results indicated that there is a synergistic coupling between strategic alignment and IT investment with firm performance, and firms that have aligned IT and business strategies can invest in additional IT resources with some assurance that they will be leveraged substantially.
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Businesses have invested enormous sums in information technology (IT). The challenge now is to optimize these investments. We empirically examined the influence of the alignment between IS strategy and business strategy (strategic alignment) on the payoff of IT investment. Many studies have been performed on the value of IT investment and strategic alignment separately, in the past, but here we combined them by investigating the moderating affect of strategic alignment on the relationship between IT investment and firm performance for a group of manufacturing firms. The results indicated that there is a synergistic coupling between strategic alignment and IT investment with firm performance. Firms that have aligned IT and business strategies can invest in additional IT resources with some assurance that they will be leveraged substantially. One of our main contributions was in the examination of four differing perspectives of strategic alignment and their relationship with the payoff of IT investment.
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