Constructing a General Framework Definition of the Business and IT Alignment Concern through selected papers

Many authors have written about Business and Information Technology (IT) alignment covering the range from the academic perspective to practical application reports but still there is little consensus on what Business and IT alignment really is. In this paper we provide a framework based on the consolidation of a survey of the most relevant sources on the topic. The survey is based on an analysis of the available publications in Internet sorted by criteria explained in this paper. A general framework is proposed as a means to illustrate important aspects of the most relevance models or frameworks for strategic business and IT Alignment according to our criteria. Background to the research This paper presents results from an on-going research project focused on Strategi