Author:
Ivan Ivanov
Affiliation:
SUNY Empire State College, United States
Keyword(s):
IT architecture, Enterprise architecture, IT governance, Socio-technical system, Systemic effect, Emerging technologies, Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Consumerization of IT.
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 computin
g, 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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