The mission of the International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance (IJITBAG) is to advance theory building and practice regarding management and governance issues within the IT-related business domain. This journal emphasizes on how organizations enable both businesses and people to execute their responsibilities in support of business/IT alignment and the creation of business value from corporation investments. This journal distributes leading research that is both academically executed and relevant for practice in the professional IT and business community.

The journal encourages practice-oriented research papers from academics, case studies, and reflective papers from practitioners. Both quantitative and qualitative research papers are welcome, and special attention is giving to explorative research reports that leverage innovate research methodologies to explore new insights in the practitioners’ field and theory. Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
Business cases for IT enabled business investments
Business process management and redesign
Business value creation through IT
Business/IT alignment through the balanced scorecard
CIO and IT leadership
COBIT, VALIT, ITIL, CMMI, and other quality models
E-metrics
Enterprise governance of IT related to enterprise governance
Governance structures, processes, and relational mechanisms
IT balanced scorecard
IT governance roles of the board and executive management
IT related governance and regulatory codes/acts, such as Basel II and Sarbanes-Oxley
Maturity models for business governance of IT and IT processes
Other mechanisms for business governance of IT: IT steering committees, information economics, and service level agreements
Practices and cases on enterprise governance of IT
Strategic information systems planning
Theoretical models for enterprise governance of IT and business/IT alignment