Business-IT Alignment and Organizational Agility
Mahyar Shahpouri Arani, Mohsen Alvandi, Vahid Jabbari
Published in the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2022, pp. 165-184.
https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJIPM.2022.122290
Research focus
This paper studies how business-IT alignment affects organizational agility. It separates alignment into intellectual alignment and social alignment, then examines whether inertia and emergent coordination explain how those forms of alignment influence agility.
Method
The study analyzed survey data from 139 employees of Qazvin Telecommunication Company using structural equation modeling and path analysis.
Key finding
The results suggest that social alignment, supported by emergent coordination, has a positive relationship with organizational agility. Intellectual alignment did not show the same direct positive effect when organizational inertia was considered.
Why it matters
The finding is important for analytics and digital transformation work. Alignment is not just a strategic-document exercise. Shared understanding, coordination, and adaptive collaboration can matter more for agility than formal alignment alone.