Shaping IT Capabilities to the Business Strategy - Capitalizing on Emerging Technologies and Trends

Ivan Ivanov

2015

Abstract

IT progressively has evolved providing greater opportunities to optimizing business processes and to enabling new business models and services. The fast pace of IT advancement drives considerable prospects for business improvement and growth. The strategic alignment of IT capabilities to organizational business strategy, as content and processes, ensures further IT governance to seize opportunities for improvements and to maximize revenue. Utilizing a well deliberated framework -Operating model, Enterprise architecture, and IT engagement model- the paper explores the impact of emerging technologies on the alignment process. Currently, companies across the globe are going through a very disruptive technology development: Consumerization of IT - when new technologies emerge first in the consumer market and then, after mass acceptance, are employed largely by business organizations. Consumerization of IT, along with workforce mobility, reliable, accessible and affordable remote computing, are forcefully reshaping the corporate IT lanscape, affecting the relationship between enterprise IT, knowledge workers, corporate users, and consumers. This paper confers the impact of these trends on the IT domain and specifically emphasizes on the dynamic forces interlinking IT capabilities with the business agility, growth and asset utilization.

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Ivanov I. (2015). Shaping IT Capabilities to the Business Strategy - Capitalizing on Emerging Technologies and Trends . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD, ISBN 978-989-758-111-3, pages 117-128. DOI: 10.5220/0005886101170128


in Bibtex Style

@conference{bmsd15,
author={Ivan Ivanov},
title={Shaping IT Capabilities to the Business Strategy - Capitalizing on Emerging Technologies and Trends},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,},
year={2015},
pages={117-128},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005886101170128},
isbn={978-989-758-111-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,
TI - Shaping IT Capabilities to the Business Strategy - Capitalizing on Emerging Technologies and Trends
SN - 978-989-758-111-3
AU - Ivanov I.
PY - 2015
SP - 117
EP - 128
DO - 10.5220/0005886101170128