TY - JFULL AU - Michiko Miyamoto PY - 2016/11/ TI - Information Technology and Business Alignments among Different Divisions: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and South Korea T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 1778 EP - 1784 VL - 10 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10005534 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 118, 2016 N2 - This paper empirically investigates whether information technology (IT) strategies, business strategies, and divisions are aligned to meet overall business goals for Korean Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), based on structure based Strategic Alignment Model, and make comparison with those of Japanese SMEs. Using 2,869 valid responses of Korean Human Capital Corporate Panel survey, a result of this study suggests that Korean human resources (HR) departments have a major influence over IT strategy, which is the same as Japanese SMEs, even though their management styles are quite different. As for IT strategy, it is not related to other departments at all for Korean SMEs. The Korean management seems to possess a great power over each division, such as Sales/Service, Research and Development/Technical Experts, HR, and Production. ER -