The Alignment of IT and Business Strategy at ROC Leeuwenborgh

ICT Lyceum ROC Leeuwenborgh tends to have IT strategic plan as a guideline to aligned between IT and business strategy. The main goal of this research is to make a recommendations for the new IT strategy implementation as a part of EA that can support the business goals. In order to create the recommendation, Strategic Information System Planning with Ward and Peppard method has been used. The perspective contains 3 models analysis: Porter’s Five Forces, McFarlan Strategic Grid, and Strategic Alignment. Afterward, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats were put into a TOWS matrix in order to create the strategies options. Strategies options were being used to create the recommendations of information technology in hardware and software

A Balancing Act: Managing the global-local dimensions of industrial clusters through the mechanism of \u27lead\u27 organisations

The purpose of this paper is to investigate \u27leading\u27 organisations in a region to understand how the balance between the global and local dimensions can be managed by clusters. Two cases of industrial clusters are employed to examine how certain organisations can occupy a \u27lead\u27 position and how - if at all - such organisations generate an agglomerative effect in a cluster, given that firms engage in extra-local inter-organisational linkages in order to remain competitive. The study shows that when large firms enact a leading role by influencing the technology trajectory of the region and stimulating the local dynamic they can generate agglomerative effects thereby enhancing the relevance and sustainability of clusters. Most significantly, it shows how leading organisations act as an important facilitator in connecting the global and local dimensions of clusters even in the absence of extensive formal local linkages. While the study substantiates previous research on the significance of temporary and organised forms of proximity it also shows the value of permanent geographical proximity, thereby contesting recent research that downplays the relevance of the clustering institution (e.g. Wickham and Vecchi 2008, Lorentzen 2007)