... with Luftman's and Brier's findings that IT strategies are just as important as business strategies and it should be aligned for any company to succeed in a competitive environment. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Abstract 2 2.0 Introduction 6 3.0 Literature Review 7 4.0 Industry Overview 12 5.0 Company Background 14 5.1 Business Model 17 5.2 Business Strategy 18 6.0 Strategic Integration 21 6.1 GDM Infosys 21 6.1.1 Processes 21 6.1.2 Quality 21 6.1.3 Tools 22 6.1.4 Knowledge Management 22 6.1.5 Program Management 23 6.1.6 Risk Mitigation 24 7.0 Functional Integration 25 7.1 Organizations Infrastructure And Processes 25 7.2 IT Infrastructure and Processes 27 7.2.1 Application Architecture 28 7.2.2 User Experience Architecture 29 7.2.3 Data Architecture 30 7.2.4 Security Architecture 31 7.2.5 Application Management Architecture 32 8.0 Governance Mechanism 32 8.1 Enterprise IT Architecture Governance 32 TABLE OF CONTENTS 8.2 Corporate Governance 32 9.0 Value Chain Framwork of Infosys 33 10.0 Findings from Research 34 11.0 Inhibitors for Alignment 35 12.0 Recommendations 35 13.0 Conclusion 36 14.0 References 37 List of Figures 1. Strategic Alignment as a Process 8 2. Luftman's Theory on Top-10 Concerns of Organizations 9 3. Luftman & Hunter ( July 2005 ) Theory on IT-Portfolio Assessment 9 4. Luftman, Hunter ( July 2005 ), On Value Management 10 5. Infosys Revenue Growth from "1999 to 2007" 15 6. Core Business Objectives 17 7. Infosys Business Process 18 8. General Diagrammatical GDM Approach 19 9. Streategic Alignement Model 20 10. Process Structure 21 11. Organization Structure of Infosys 26 12. Scalable layered IT architecture promoted by the Infosys IS department 27 13. The ...

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