E-business IT governance revisited

An attempt towards outlining a novel bi-directional business/it alignment in COBIT5

Conference Paper (2014)
Author(s)

Yannick Bartens (Universität Hamburg)

F. Schulte (Universität Hamburg)

Stefan Voß (Universität Hamburg)

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DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2014.538
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Publication Year
2014
Language
English
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Pages (from-to)
4356-4365
ISBN (print)
9781479925049

Abstract

In contrast to classical business, e-business highly depends on internet technologies. Business and IT naturally coalesce here. Thus, a customer-driven IT requirement may enforce an adjustment of a business model. This poses new challenges for researchers and practitioners as currently a business-driven alignment paradigm dominates in IT governance. We identify characteristics of e-business and examine how IT governance frameworks can integrate these characteristics under consideration of a bi-directional business/IT alignment process. We use COBIT 5 as a benchmark for our examination, and reveal a need for a modification of the framework to fully cover e-business requirements. Based on the COBIT 5 Goal Cascade, we propose a possible integration of a bottom-up requirements process. Our findings for e-business can build a basis for future research on different business models.

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