In the turbulent business environments brought about by the digital age, strategic IT alignment remains at the forefront of managers’ concerns, raising important issues for researchers. One of these issues is to further understand how firms enact their IT alignment processes and what IT and non-IT capabilities are required to support these processes. To understand this issue, we conducted four case studies in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Anchored in a dynamic capability-based view, our findings unveil how three 2nd-order, six 1st-order dynamic IT alignment capabilities, and other IT and non-IT capabilities coherently interact to support the firm's business objectives.

在数字时代带来的动荡的商业环境中，战略 IT 协调仍然是管理者关注的首要问题，这给研究人员提出了重要问题。其中一个问题是进一步了解公司如何执行其 IT 调整流程以及支持这些流程需要哪些IT 和非 IT 功能。为了解这个问题，我们对中小企业 (SME) 进行了四个案例研究。基于基于动态能力的观点，我们的研究结果揭示了三个二阶、六个一阶动态 IT 协调能力以及其他 IT 和非 IT 能力如何一致地相互作用以支持公司的业务目标。