Javier Santiago Cortes Lopez, Guillermo Rodriguez Abitia, Juan Gomez Reynoso, Angel Eduardo Muñoz Zavala
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Abstract
Purpose
This qualitative study aims to fill gaps in a widely studied and relevant organizational feature: the alignment between information technologies and business strategies.
Design/methodology/approach
This research is a qualitative study. The authors used focus groups, content analysis and semantic networks as research approaches to identify the main factors that prevent or foster such alignment.
Findings
Results reveal a leading role of innovation, organizational culture, access to information and financial factors that could promote or inhibit alignment and competitiveness.
Originality/value
This research was conducted only in small and medium organizations in Mexico, which represents about 52% of the Mexican Gross Domestic Product (for Mexico as one of the leading trade partners of the USA).
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Measuring Business Excellence provides international insights into non-financial ways to measure and manage business performance improvements and company’s value creation dynamics. Measuring Business Excellence will enable you to apply best practice, implement innovative thinking and learn how to use different practices. Learn how to use innovative frameworks, approaches and practices for understanding, assessing and managing the strategic value drivers of business excellence. MBE publishes both rigorous academic research and insightful practical experiences about the development and adoption of assessment and management models, tools and approaches to support excellence and value creation of 21st century organizations both private and public.
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