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Aligning Strategy and Digital Technology in Government Organizations: A Call to Action

Research in Organizational Change and Development

ISBN: 978-1-80262-174-7, eISBN: 978-1-80262-173-0

Publication date: 26 November 2021

Abstract

For the last four decades, the alignment of strategy and digital technology has persisted as one of the most critical and bothersome issues for senior government executives. Against this backdrop and drawing on the fruits of an extended program of collaborative research between 1995 and 2020, this chapter draws attention to how government organizations foster effective alignment and how this is achieved through four distinct cycles of alignment work. Considering that this work is heavily people- and organization-centric, the chapter calls for greater involvement of organization development and change scholars and practitioners in this important area of organizational life and work.

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McDonagh, J. (2021), "Aligning Strategy and Digital Technology in Government Organizations: A Call to Action", (Rami) Shani, A.B. and Noumair, D.A. (Ed.) Research in Organizational Change and Development (Research in Organizational Change and Development, Vol. 29), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 235-260. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0897-301620210000029010

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