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Alignment of business and information strategies and its impact on business performance

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Author

  • Björn Johansson
  • František Sudzina
  • Andreja Pucihar

Summary, in English

Alignment between business strategy and information strategy has been focused on for several years with research suggesting different explanations to how this alignment influences a firm's performance. This article presents results from an investigation of firms in Slovenia about how business people perceived their business strategy and information strategy to be aligned. Respondents? statements from the questionnaire survey on their perceived alignment between business strategy and information strategy were checked against the firms? revenue growth. The analysis of perceived alignment between business strategy, information strategy, and revenue growth shows that there is a significant relationship between alignment and revenue growth in Slovenia, and this link is positive. Managers should aim to align business and information strategies in order to achieve better business performance.

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

886-898

Publication/Series

Journal of Business Economics and Management

Volume

15

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Keywords

  • information systems
  • empirical research
  • business strategy
  • information strategy
  • alignment
  • business performance

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1611-1699