E-Finance Lab Team

2010

Schlosser, F; Wagner, H; Beimborn, D; Weitzel, T

Role of Internal Business/IT Alignment and IT Governance for Service Quality in IT Outsourcing Arrangements

In: Proceedings of the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS); Kauai, HI, USA

Category: Proceedings

Reference No.: 2010-6

2009

Joachim, N; Beimborn, D; Schlosser, F

Examining the Organizational Decision to Adopt Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Developing a Research Model

In: Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (DIGIT) (Pre-ICIS Workshop); Phoenix (AZ), USA

Category: Proceedings

Reference No.: 2009-1516

Beimborn, D; Joachim, N; Schlosser, F

The Role of SOA for BPO Intention – Proposing a Research Model

In: Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on eBusiness (Pre-ICIS Workshop); Phoenix (AZ), USA

Category: Proceedings

Reference No.: 2009-1515

Schlosser, F

Die Bedeutung von IT/Business-Alignment für nachhaltigen Unternehmenserfolg - Ein theoretisches Rahmenwerk und Richtlinien für die Praxis

In: Tagungsband zum Doctoral Consortium der WI 2009, Bayreuther Arbeitspapiere zur Wirtschaftsinformatik, No. 40

Category: Proceedings

Reference No.: 2009-1334

Beimborn, D; Schlosser, F; Weitzel, T

Examining the Relationship Between Trust and Control in IT Outsourcing Relationships

In: Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS09); Verona, Italy

Category: Proceedings

Reference No.: 2009-1333

Beimborn, D; Joachim, N; Schlosser, F; Streicher, B

The Role of IT/Business Alignment for Achieving SOA Business Value – Proposing a Research Model

In: Proceedings of the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2009); San Francisco, USA

Category: Proceedings

Abstract

What is the interplay between IT/Business alignment and Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) regarding the achievement of business value in terms of business flexibility? This paper introduces a conceptual model that derives propositions about how IT/Business alignment, IT flexibility, and business flexibility are interrelated and how SOA and alignment interact in order to increase business flexibility. We apply and integrate well-known multi-dimensional concepts of both IT/Business alignment (in terms of strategic alignment, structural alignment, and social alignment) and IT flexibility (technical and non-technical IT flexibility) and map the conceptual components of SOA (architectural and the governance dimension) to this resulting model. This conceptualization will allow for more profoundly structured research on how SOA contributes to business value.

Reference No.: 2009-1323

Beimborn, D; Schlosser, F; Weitzel, T

Proposing a theoretical model for IT governance and IT business alignment

In: 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-42); Waikoloa (HI), USA

Category: Proceedings

Abstract

This paper suggests to extend the view that strateg-ic alignment is a core IT governance issue and post-ulates that considering operational alignment as well offers more precise insights into how governance mechanisms influence business process performance. Theoretically combining findings from IT value, IT business alignment and IT governance research, we show the tantamount role of top executive support and operational alignment from a governance perspective. Empirical data from 82 firms show, among others, that the impact of IT governance mechanisms on success is mediated by strategic and operational alignment.

Reference No.: 2009-1046

2008

Schlosser, F; Beimborn, D; Weitzel, T; König, W

IT Value Creation in Bank Processes

In: EFL Quarterly 3/2008

Category: Other publications

Reference No.: 2008-1318

Weitzel, T; Beimborn, D; Schlosser, F

IT Business Alignment

In: WISU Das Wirtschaftsstudium

Category: Other publications

Abstract

Wie kann Informationstechnologie (IT) im Unternehmen so eingesetzt werden, dass sie einen positiven Wertbeitrag stiftet? Als ein zentraler Faktor zur Erklärung und Messung des Wertbeitrags wird hier das Konzept des IT-Business-Alignment erläutert. Dafür wird zunächst eine Definition und ein kurzer Überblick auf die Historie von IT-Business-Alignment gegeben und dann auf die zentralen Punkte des Konzepts eingegangen. Außerdem wird eine Übersicht der aktuellen Ergebnisse empirischer Studien geliefert, um die Bedeutung von Alignment für die Praxis herauszustellen. Wichtige Fragen in diesem Zusammenhang beschäftigen sich insbesondere mit Themen der konkreten Messung sowie der Maßnahmen zur Erreichung von Alignment.

Reference No.: 2008-1101

Beimborn, D; Hirschheim, R; Schlosser, F; Schwarz, A; Weitzel, T

How to Achieve IT Business Alignment? Investigating the Role of Business Process Documentation in US and German Banks

In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS); Toronto, ON, Canada

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Abstract

It is increasingly acknowledged that generating value from IT requires strategic and operational IT business alignment. But it remains difficult to provide concrete suggestions on what drives alignment in day-to-day business. Thorough process documentation might enable cross-departmental transparency and thereby serve as an antecedent of operational alignment. We suggest that business process documentation is a straightforward and actionable antecedent of operational IT business alignment. Using data from 200 US and German banks it is shown that indeed documentation strongly drives operational alignment, but surprisingly only in US banks. The implications and avenues for further research on operational alignment are discussed.

Reference No.: 2008-1057

Beimborn, D; Hirschheim, R; Schlosser, F; Schwarz, A; Weitzel, T

Comparing the Operational Integration of a Core Information System in Insourcing and Outsourcing Firms

In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS); Toronto, ON, Canada

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Abstract

IT business alignment is widely acknowledged as an important driver for effectively applying information systems in a business context and for increasing the performance of the supported business process. But how does this structural integration of enterprise systems and business processes change when firms outsource the provision of their IT? We empirically compare how the value impact of structural IT business alignment on core financial processes in banks with an internal IT is different from banks that have their enterprise systems outsourced. It turns out that outsourcing substantially changes the ways operational alignment influences business process performance.

Reference No.: 2008-1056