Application hosting as means for aligning business and IT: The case of Africa-Israel hotels

Heart Tsipi, Pliskin Nava, Curley Kathleen

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Abstract

With business performance, global trade, and worldwide communications now dependent on effective use of Information Technology (IT), organizations aspire to achieve return on IT investment and to capture IT value. Research shows that alignment between business and IT strategies is a prerequisite to capturing IT value. This case study is about Africa-Israel Hotels (AIH), a centralized hotel chain that has aligned its business and IT strategies by means of application hosting. Although some past research looked into Application Service Providers (ASPs), no previous study has suggested it as an affordable means for SMEs to achieve business and IT alignment. The MIT90 framework of Scott Morton (1991), and the four-stage IT-architecture evolution model of Ross (2003) are used to discuss the dimensions of business and IT alignment and to demonstrate how such alignment can enable capturing IT value. The case also presents a somewhat innovative way of application hosting - a hybrid ASP-outsourcing solution, used by AIH to mitigate risks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2006
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2006 - Alicante, Spain
Duration: 6 Jul 20067 Jul 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2006

Conference

Conference3rd European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2006
Country/TerritorySpain
CityAlicante
Period6/07/067/07/06

Keywords

  • Application hosting
  • Application service provider (ASP)
  • Business strategy
  • Business-IT alignment
  • IT architecture
  • IT strategy
  • IT value
  • MIT90 model

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems

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