Impacts of a Relationship Model on Informational Technology Governance: an Analysis of Managerial Perceptions in Brazil

Adriano Weber Scheeren, Joaquim Rubens Fontes Filho, Elaine Maria Tavares Rodrigues

Abstract


The aim of this article is to analyze the impacts, based on the perceptions of managers, of the deployment of a model to govern the relationship between business areas and IT in a large Brazilian financial organization. To undertake the case study of this deployment, the research firstly performed documental analyses of the process and then sent electronic surveys to a sample of managers in order to evaluate their perceptions of the model’s impact in terms of the formalism of the organization’s internal processes, strategic alignment between business areas and IT and levels of governance in the organization. The results revealed that managers perceived improvements in the quality of technological solutions, levels of IT governance, the understanding of IT area needs and business area demands, but they also stated that the negotiating process was more complex and there was no increase in their level of satisfaction with IT. These results of the study may contribute to the development of instruments for the evaluation of the impacts of the deployment of relationship models on important organizational aspects.

Keywords


Information Technology; IT Governance; IT Alignment; Relationship Model; IT Strategy

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4301/s1807-17752013000300009

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