Planning system success: a conceptualization operational model
Management Science
An assessment of the contingency theory of management information systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Systems development in information systems research
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue on management support systems
Information systems strategy and implementation: a case study of a building society
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) - Special issue on social science perspectives on IS
Growing systems in emergent organizations
Communications of the ACM
Empirical research in information systems: the practice of relevance
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Analysis by long walk: some approaches to the synthesis of multiple sources of evidence
Qualitative research in IS
Competing in the Information Age: Strategic Alignment in Practice
Competing in the Information Age: Strategic Alignment in Practice
Implementation: The Key to Successful Information Systems
Implementation: The Key to Successful Information Systems
Alignment Between Business and IS Strategies: A Study of Prospectors, Analyzers, and Defenders
Information Systems Research
Ideal patterns of strategic alignment and business performance
Information and Management
Information Systems Strategic Management: An Integrated Approach (Routledge Series in Information Systems)
A Design Science Research Methodology for Information Systems Research
Journal of Management Information Systems
Soft design science methodology
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
Design and natural science research on information technology
Decision Support Systems
Information systems management issues for the 1990s
MIS Quarterly
Design science in information systems research
MIS Quarterly
The nature of theory in information systems
MIS Quarterly
Information systems strategy: Past, present, future?
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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To compete in a highly dynamic marketplace, firms must frequently adapt and align their competitive strategies and information systems. The dominant literature on the strategic fit of a firm's information systems focuses primarily on high-level measures of the strategic fit of a firm's overall IS portfolio and the impact of fit on business performance. This paper addresses the need for a more fine-grained approach for assessing the specific areas of misfit between a firm's competitive strategies and IS capabilities. We describe the design and evaluation of a multilevel strategic fit (MSF) measurement model that enables researchers and practitioners to measure the strategic fit of a firm's information systems at both an overall and a detailed level. The steps in the model include identifying the relevant IS capabilities according to the type of system; measuring the current level of support for each capability using a capabilities instrument; identifying the ideal level of support for each capability using an adaptation of Conant et al.'s (1990) instrument to assess strategic archetype; and comparing the ideal and realized level of support for each capability. Evidence from a multiple case study analysis indicates that the fine-grained assessment of strategic fit can strengthen the validity, utility, and ease of corroboration of the strategic fit measurement outputs. The paper also demonstrates how an iterative design science research approach, with its emphasis on evaluating the utility of prototype artifacts, is well suited to developing field-tested and theoretically grounded measurement models and instruments that are accessible to practitioners. This focus on practical utility in turn provides researchers with results that can be more readily corroborated, thus improving the quality and usefulness of the research findings.