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New-Generation Managers’ Business/IT Alignment Perspective for a More Business-Driven IS Design

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Digital natives are increasingly populating organizations’ management. As they have higher expectations of IS accommodating their non-functional user preferences, the frontend application design of management support systems (MSS)—as managers’ direct user-interface—plays an increasingly dominant role. By means of using new-generation managers’ perspective of a business/IT alignment, this article proposes a method for a more business-driven IS design. We obtain both a set of business-driven MSS requirements and—applying this approach—initial design guidelines. We evaluate our approach with respect to the state of the art and propose avenues for future research.

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    Jörg Hauke, Reiner Quick & Hannes Feistenauer

  2. Institute of Information Management, University of St.Gallen, Müller-Friedberg-Strasse 8, 9000, St.Gallen, Switzerland

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Hauke, J., Mayer, J.H., Quick, R., Feistenauer, H. (2013). New-Generation Managers’ Business/IT Alignment Perspective for a More Business-Driven IS Design. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems Workshops. BIS 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 160. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41687-3_9

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