Study On Dynamic Mechanism Of Strategic Alignment Between Business And Information Systems

Entering into the information era, IS/IT begins to support the business strategy and its implementation from different aspects. It is tendency to align Business and Information Systems. Their strategic alignment is the key to ensure the effect of IS/IT and the efficiency of the investment. In this dissertation, we try to do some research on influencing factors and dynamic mechanism of strategic alignment.First, we provide the influencing factors model of strategic alignment from Business and Information Systems views. Being based on the literature review, we put forth the factor model of strategic alignment. And then we deeply analyses the different effect of each factor.Secondly, we put forth the four stages model of strategic alignment using the stage of growth theory. This dissertation use the stage theory,and divide the strategy process into four stages which are weekly alignment stage, partially alignment stage, integrated alignment stage and inter-organization alignment stage. And then we deeply analyses the effect of main factors on each stage.Then, with the literature review of chaotic theory, we discuss the dynamic mechanism of strategic alignment. We introduce the chaotic theory into strategic alignment dynamic mechanism. We analyze the commonness between chaos and strategic alignment, and demonstrate the feasibility to use chaotic theory in strategic alignment. We find that there are bifurcations and chaos during the process of strategic alignment using Logistic function. We put forth the dynamic mechanism by analyzing the changing mechanism of strategic alignment stage models.At last, we analyses the cases that have implemented informization projects during the process of strategic alignment and the different effect of each factor in different stage to validate the rationality of the strategic alignment dynamic mechanism.This dissertation contains some innovation on the following aspects: At first, we put forth the four stages model of strategic alignment using the stage of growth theory. Then we deeply analyses the effect of main factors on each stage.Secondly, Introducing the chaotic theory into our research, Analyzing the commonness between chaos and strategic alignment, we do some research on the changing process of strategic alignment.