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Previous chapters described what Enterprise Governance of IT is about and how a set of practices can be leveraged to implement Enterprise Governance of IT. In this chapter, the impact of Enterprise Governance of IT implementations on business/IT alignment will be discussed. The first question is how an organization can measure and evaluate its current status of business/IT alignment. This discussion is supplemented with a benchmarking case, where business/IT alignment was measured for the Belgian financial services sector. Next, the impact of Enterprise Governance of IT practices on business/IT alignment is analyzed and illustrated with cases.
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van Grembergen, W., de Haes, S. (2009). The Impact of Enterprise Governance of IT on Business/IT Alignment. In: Enterprise Governance of Information Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84882-2_3
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