Carve-outs belong to the most disruptive events companies – especially IT departments – are subject to. Yet the impact of these events on the IT alignment of the involved business units is largely unknown. This paper utilizes an alignment model to analyze specific IT-related challenges of...

The divestiture of a business unit — also known as a “carve-out” — is a common strategy used by multi-business organizations to adjust their business portfolios in response to a change in business strategy, and legal or regulatory pressures. In a typical divestiture, systems that were...