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Blending Business Strategies with IT in Digital Era

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The alignment of IT management and business is the key factor for the success of enterprises. The IT management must take care and understand the business strategies and proceed in this context for the management of data, application and the infrastructure architecture. The business must also implement methods to transfer the logic behind the strategies, vision, organization, the processes to improve and the functions to develop to the IT management in a context of business architecture. Throughout blending business strategies with IT management, the enterprises can achieve more efficient business and IT operations, better return, reduced risk and complexity; so, the organization becomes more agile among different distribution channels, project and change management is easier and the software development costs will be lower.

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Met, İ., Uysal, E.U., Orç, E. (2020). Blending Business Strategies with IT in Digital Era. In: Hacioglu, U. (eds) Digital Business Strategies in Blockchain Ecosystems. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29739-8_15

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