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Nowadays information technology (IT) has evolved from its traditional orientation of administrative support toward a more strategic role within an organization. But, there is still a lack of frameworks and models to measure this new strategic orientation of IT. To remain competitive, firms should align their IT and Business strategy. A number of alignment models have been offered in the literature, primary among them the strategic alignment model (SAM). However, there is little published research that attempts to give a model which can be easily used in practice. This paper proposes a new model of alignment between Business strategy and IT strategy, based on Miles and Snow's strategy representation. And use AHP method to evaluate the decision maker's preferences.
Benkhayat et al. (Tue,) studied this question.