The Matching and Evolutionary Path Model of IT and Business Alignment Based on Dynamic Capabilities

Abstract:

The good match of IT and business is an important prerequisite to ensure business strategy and the value of enterprise information investments. With the intensive application of IT and the rapidly changing of environment, the match of IT and business should be more concerned about its dynamic characteristics and evolution law. Based on the research analysis of IT and business matching, the strategic alignment model (SAM model) and the business-IT strategic alignment maturity model (LAM model), the paper introduces the dynamic capabilities to build an IT and business matching and evolutionary path model under the action of dynamic capabilities. In the model, nine paths and four steps are proposed to describe the matching and evolution of IT and business. The roles of dynamic capabilities are explained in describing the matching and evolution paths, such as perception, capital-and technology path dependence, learning, dynamic feedback, resource restructuring and reconfiguration, team, coordination and innovation etc. It has a strong reference to the deep research of IT and business alignment, matching and evolutionary path and the enterprise information technology applications.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 519-520)
• Pages: 1463-1467
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.519-520.1463
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Chao Su, Li Tao Zhang*, Peng Fei Liu
• Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities, Evolutionary Path, IT and Business Alignment

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