Business transformation and its impact on strategic alignment maturity level an empirical investigation
Dissertant
Thesis advisor
University
Arab Academy for Financial and Banking Sciences
Faculty
The Faculty of Information Systems and Technology
Department
Department of Management Information Systems
University Country
Jordan
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Date
2008
English Abstract
The ever increasing expenditure and investment in information technology leads to an increasing demand to measure the maturity level in the researched firms.
Therefore, the main goal of this study is to investigate the strategic alignment maturity level and how it can be improved by the firms using business transformation alignment which addresses both how IT is in harmony with the business and how the business should, or could be in harmony with IT.
The researcher introduces "business transformation'' concept in order to face the strategic alignment challenges between business and information technology especially the several environmental challenges that the organizations face, and to achieve a high level of alignment.
In this context theoretical and empirical studies were done.
To achieve the above goals a questionnaire was designed to data collection and was analyzed using statistical package of social science.
The study has reached to the following main conclusions: There is a positive relationship between business transformation and strategic alignment maturity level and there is a significant statistical effect of business transformation upon strategic alignment maturity level.
In addition, the study recommended that the researched Jordanian firms should pay attention to the business transformation and should give a specific care to the six criteria of strategic alignment maturity.
Main Subjects
Topics
No. of Pages
224
Table of Contents
Table of contents.
Abstract.
Chapter one : Introduction.
Chapter two : Strategic Management.
Chapter three : Strategic Alignment
Chapter four : Business Transformation.
Chapter five : The Research Methodology.
Chapter six : Operationalisation and Measurement of Model Variables.
Chapter seven : Data Analysis and Results.
Chapter eight : The results discussion.
Chapter nine : Conclusions and Implications.
References.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Hashim, Adil. (2008). Business transformation and its impact on strategic alignment maturity level an empirical investigation. (Doctoral dissertations Theses and Dissertations Master). Arab Academy for Financial and Banking Sciences, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-306038
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Hashim, Adil. Business transformation and its impact on strategic alignment maturity level an empirical investigation. (Doctoral dissertations Theses and Dissertations Master). Arab Academy for Financial and Banking Sciences. (2008).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-306038
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Hashim, Adil. (2008). Business transformation and its impact on strategic alignment maturity level an empirical investigation. (Doctoral dissertations Theses and Dissertations Master). Arab Academy for Financial and Banking Sciences, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-306038
Language
English
Data Type
Arab Theses
Record ID
BIM-306038
