Information Systems Review (경영정보학연구)

The Korea Society of Management Information Systems (한국경영정보학회)
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Information Technology Strategy and Architecture: An Explanatory Contingency Framework

정보기술전략과 정보기술아키텍쳐: 설명적 상황이론 프레임워크

  • Yum, Ji-Hwan (Department of e-Business, Han Yang Cyber University)
  • 염지환 (한양사이버대학교 e-비즈니스 학과)
  • Published : 2002.12.31
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Abstract

The study employs the conceptual framework of the strategic success paradigm developed by Ansoff (1990). The strategic success paradigm denotes that optimal performance will be attained when the level of environmental turbulence is aligned with the strategic aggressiveness and organizational capability. Based on the paradigm, authors developed the concept of IT (information technology) aggressiveness (IT aggressiveness henceforth) and capability (IT capability henceforth). In order to clarify the different concept of IT aggressiveness and capability, the author brought the concept of IT architecture. The difference of capability and architecture lies in the depth of technical considerations. Where capability refers attitudinal aspects of managers, architecture emphasizes technical capacity of the organization as a whole. The study validated the need for alignment among IT architecture, environmental turbulence and IT aggressiveness. The imbalance between IT strategy and IT architecture (such as a higher level of IT aggressiveness but a lower level of IT architecture, or vice versa) has a marginal contribution to the organizational IT performance. The alignment among organizational environmental turbulence, IT aggressiveness, and IT architecture resulted in an optimal level of IT performance especially in a turbulent environment.

본 연구는 Ansoff의 "전략적 성공모델"에 의거하여 조직 정보기술전략의 도달 가능한 최고 성과는 경 영 환경의 역동성(turbulence)과 정보기술전략의 공격도(aggressiveness), 정보기술역량(capability)간의 일치에 의한다는 가설을 검증하였다. 정보기술전략 공격도와 정보기술역량을 차별화한기 위하여 정보기술아키텍처라는 개념을 원용하였다. 즉, 정보기술전략의 공격도는 아키텍쳐를 의미하는데, 이는 정보기술역량이 경영자의 장래 정보기술에 대한 태도를 의미하는데 반하여 정보기술아키텍쳐는 현재 조직이 보유한 기술적 역량을 의미한다. 본 연구는 정보기술아키텍쳐와 경영환경의 역동성, 정보기술역량간의 수준의 일치가 조직성과에 유의미하다는 결론을 제공한다. 즉 경영환경의 역동성, 정보기술전략과 정보기술아키텍쳐의 일치는, 특히 경영환경이 역동적인 상황에서 더욱 조직성과에 유익한 결과를 가져올 수 있다는 근거를 통계적으로 증명한다.

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