The concept of aligning information technology to an organization’s strategy. This is essentially more often a prescriptive goal than a reality for most organizations.

However, alignment can also be considered descriptively as well: namely that an organization’s critical business processes can generate (over time) an IT infrastructure which (for better or worse) parallels the processes.

At VTB, how & what the organization do until 2010 to have an IT infrastructure that was such a mess (in terms of many different applications and middleware

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Historical Growth and Acquisitions One common reason for a messy IT infrastructure is rapid growth and acquisitions As organizations expand they often acquire new systems applications and technologies View the full answer