IT Alignment Guide
The IT Alignment Guide is a lean framework for IT strategic planning to accomplish and sustain consistency between business and IT strategies. It describes management practices, processes, phases, events, and artifacts for effective application in enterprises.
Features
- It includes best practices for IT strategic planning.
- It is a state-of-the-art framework based on recent scientific findings.
- It is complementary, i.e., it closes gaps and matches other guides (e.g., PMBOK, TOGAF, COBIT, and ITIL).
- It provides flexibility and simplicity in implementation.
The IT Alignment Guide is value-focused to improve the financial performance of an enterprise and increase its competitive advantage. It integrates recognized concepts from strategy management science and the newest research about IT business value, IT alignment, and IT architecture management.
This framework connects five management practices: innovation management, strategy management, enterprise architecture management, project portfolio management, and project management.
