What do IT and business alignment, IT governance, and strategic planning really mean? If you think the question is simple, think again.

BY MAREK JAKUBIK

There are two places where I most frequently meet with the word align. Every couple of years I hear it from my friendly car mechanic. And about every other day I read about it in another CIO survey. Could the two be connected? And why, oh why, do the IT folks keep talking so much about the need to align?

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