Communication Factors Influencing Business-IT Alignment

Rossouw von Solms, Jacques Coertze
2020 Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Communication plays a very important role in the success or failure of modern-day enterprises. Employees constantly exchange information as part of organizational planning, developing, control, reporting, etc. Communication is as important in the process of business-IT alignment. If the efficiency of communication between the business and IT sections is bad, the business-IT alignment will surely suffer. For this reason an enterprise should attempt at all times to optimise communication between
more » ... he business and IT sectors. What is important though is to determine the suite of possible factors that might influence such business-IT alignment and to use these factors in attempts to improve the efficiency of such communication. The objective of this paper is to determine such a suite of factors influencing business-IT alignment.
doi:10.36478/jeasci.2019.10490.10496 fatcat:e2gc6fp3pbanrb7dcmp66ivrdm