How to Measure Shared Understanding among Business and IT

Jentsch, Christian; Beimborn, Daniel; Jungnickl, Christoph P.; Renner, Georg S.

doi:10.5465/ambpp.2014.138

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“…That typically involved communication and strategy translation at executive levels (Luftman, 2004;Hu & Huang, 2006;Tarafdar & Qrunfleh, 2009). Today, successful BITA, however, entails much more at tactical and operational levels, and focuses on management activities that help in achieving cohesive goals across IT and business operations (Gutierrez & Lycett, 2011;Jentsch & Beimborn, 2014). Therefore, the barriers compiled years ago in BITA are strongly argued not to be the same as today as the CIO's role has changed a lot combined with dramatic changes in business models.…”

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confidence: 99%

Strategic and Tactical Business-IT Alignment Barriers in Organizations Acting in Sweden

El-Mekawy

Rusu

Perjons

et al. 2015

International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance

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In research, many barriers to BITA are presented based on different theoretical frameworks. However, these barriers are studied either from a pure theoretical perspective or with limited empirical scope. This consequently hinders the achievement of BITA in organizations. In this article the practitioners view of barriers to BITA are investigated aiming at producing a list of barriers which practitioners can use as a ground for better achievement of BITA. The list of barriers was identified by conducting three in-depth case studies on multinational organizations acting in Sweden along with two focused group discussions of researchers, and followed by a survey on 74 large and medium sized organizations on the Swedish market. The result of this study is a list of 45 barriers to BITA from the perspectives of business and IT practitioners.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategic and Tactical Business-IT Alignment Barriers in Organizations Acting in Sweden

El-Mekawy

Rusu

Perjons

et al. 2015

International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance

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“…In addition, the construction management, and visualizations that these students created and used to learn and develop integrated skills were studied. The results of two studies are shown in [28]: an experiment with students and a pilot field study with professionals using a content validity survey instrument to measure shared understanding in companies and IT professionals that aims to monitor the relationships between companies and IT units in their organizations.…”

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Validating the Formal Specification of the THUNDERS Process

Agredo-Delgado,

H. Ruiz,

Collazos

2023

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Collaborative work encourages participants to build knowledge through exploration, discussion, negotiation, and debate to generate a better understanding or shared understanding of a concept, problem, or situation within a group. The aim of collaborative work is to find that shared understanding, which is understood as the existing agreement or similarity in the perceptions of the participants on a topic. Considering this, it can be determined that the greater the understanding and cohesion among all team members, the better results will be obtained in the development of the tasks and responsibilities that each of the members must fulfill, generating greater group trust and allowing everyone to move in the same direction. However, such understanding is not easy to build, there is no clarity on how it should be built, and it is simply given as something obvious or to be achieved, without giving it real importance. Trying to address these problems, from the multi-cycle action research methodology, THUNDERS is defined as a process that establishes how to build shared understanding in problem-solving activities. This article shows the conceptual and methodological cycles for its construction, and more in detail the validation cycle, in which was performed: an expert validation of the formal specification of THUNDERS to determine the correctness and completeness of its structure, a quality validation of its process model SPEM 2.0, and an experiment to validate its feasibility and usefulness. As results of these validations, it was obtained that THUNDERS needs to improve the syntactic and semantic elements of its specification and the cognitive load generated by its use. In addition, it was found that is a viable and useful process for the construction of a shared understanding with each of the elements that compose it.

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“…The study was conducted with students in an interdisciplinary project-based class in which the interactions among students of architecture, construction science, and construction management were studied, and the visualizations these students created and used in order to learn and develop integrated skills. Results from two studies are shown in [43]: an experiment with students and a pilot field study with practitioners using a content validity survey instrument to measure shared understanding in businesses and IT professionals that aimed to monitor the relationships between businesses and the IT units of their organizations.…”

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An Exploratory Study on the Validation of THUNDERS: A Process to Achieve Shared Understanding in Problem-Solving Activities

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The complexity in collaborative work is mainly related to the difficulty in social interaction, which generates low levels of understanding among participants about what they should do and about the problem to be solved, resulting in problems in the motivation to generate true collaboration. Therefore, in the search to improve collaborative work and encourage this collaboration, it is necessary to implement strategies that promote the construction of shared understanding and obtain better group results. However, building it becomes a challenge due to the factors that influence it and how little is known about its construction. In this sense, to improve collaborative work, as a result of a research process, the THUNDERS process is proposed, which provides a set of elements to build shared understanding in problem-solving activities and with heterogeneous group formation. Specifically, this paper presents the results of the statistical validation of THUNDERS through the Student’s t-test, which was used in an exploratory study in the educational field in two Colombian universities, where learning styles were considered for the formation of groups; having groups that used the process and other control groups that did not use it, the collaborative activity consisted of determining the scope of a process line simulating a software development company. According to the results obtained in the context of this study, it can be considered that THUNDERS encourages and improves shared understanding when people in a group work collaboratively to solve a problem. In addition, elements for improvement were identified that should be incorporated in further stages of this research so that the process allows for an easy and guided construction of shared understanding in any application context.

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How to Measure Shared Understanding among Business and IT

Cited by 8 publications

References 30 publications

Strategic and Tactical Business-IT Alignment Barriers in Organizations Acting in Sweden

Strategic and Tactical Business-IT Alignment Barriers in Organizations Acting in Sweden

Validating the Formal Specification of the THUNDERS Process

An Exploratory Study on the Validation of THUNDERS: A Process to Achieve Shared Understanding in Problem-Solving Activities

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