Excerpt from Strategic Alignment: A Model for Organizational Transformation Via Information Technology More importantly, the emergence of the competitive role has significant implications for organizational transformation. This is because the mere superimposition of powerful I T capabilities on the existing organizational structure and processes is unlikely to yield superior competitive benefits. This is supported by one of the central messages from the recently concluded mit Research Project, Management in the 19905 (scott Morton, 1990) that successful organizations can be distinguished by their ability to leverage I/ T capabilities to transform their businesses (structures, processes, and roles) to obtain new and powerful sources of competitive advantages in the marketplace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.