After reviewing the material for this module, discuss the importance of aligning IT strategies with business objectives. Address the following:
- How do you align IT strategies with business objectives?
- What are the benefits?
- What are the challenges?
- What do you think is the most important argument for this alignment? Why?
- How could you quantify this alignment to gain support from senior management? From IT?
- Research a real-world case in which an organization aligned IT with business strategy and summarize the most important thing you learned from that case.
Direction:
- Embed course material concepts, principles and theories, which require supporting citations, along with at least two scholarly peer reviewed references in supporting your answer.
- Use academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.
- Be sure to support your statements with logic and argument.
- citing all sources referenced and cite inside the text.
- 6-8 paragraphs include ( introduction – body – conclusion ).