IT Governance and Business-IT Alignment in SMEs

摘要

This article discusses the results of a limited field study on IT governance and business-IT alignment in SMEs in the Netherlands. The main conclusion of this analysis is that in the sample taken, SMEs in the Netherlands are on average not very IT-intensive and score low in the field of business and IT alignment. Further, it was shown for two extreme case companies, with relatively high IT intensity scores in this sample, that the organisation with the lower business-IT alignment results clearly had a lower IT governance.