Purpose A poor relationship between top management and IT personnel is often denoted as
a business–IT gap. In an era of digital transformation, bridging this gap and establishing a …

The business–IT gap is still present in many companies and IT/IS professionals often impute
the responsibility for this to management and claim they lack top management's support for …

Purpose–It is generally accepted that new information technologies are an integral part of
most forms of business initiatives. Evidence suggests that many of these innovations are …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide and develop a comprehensive and holistic
understanding of the working relationship between the in‐house IT department and other …

This paper investigates perceptions of the IT/business relationship held by 653 IT managers
and their staff and 503 of their business counterparts. On the basis of data collected over a 3 …

Many of the issues associated with the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of information
systems development (ISD) have been attributed to the poor relationship between business …

The senior management of many organisations are continually disappointed with the
benefits and value which they perceive they are getting from their investments in IT. This …

Despite substantial evidence that IT can transform organizations and the industries in which
they operate, management behaviour towards IT can differ markedly. Differences exist within …

Digitalization is transforming business models across industries. As information technology
(IT) is becoming embedded in products and services, IT leadership has an increasingly …

This research aims at improving our understanding of the concept of business competence
of information technology professionals and at exploring the contribution of this competence …