Business-it strategy alignment: complex systems

Both information technology IT and Business leaders are continually looking for methods and practices to align their IT and business strategies. Alignment seems to become more important for companies to survive in a competitive and evaluative market. Literature proposes several models, but it never takes into consideration the complex characteristics of this strategic alignment, which undergoes the interventions of several agents. This paper proposes a new approach of strategic alignment based on complex systems and analyses agent influencing this alignment.