[Introduction]: Since the introduction of computers in the early 1960s, many organisations have reported a troubled relationship between business and information technology (IT) professionals. Some forty years on, and despite many attempts to resolve the troubled relationship, tensions still...

[Abstract]: Managing the business relationship between information technology (IT) and business professionals is critical to the success of an organisation. For the IT group to add value to the business, a healthy IT-business relationship is absolutely essential. Unfortunately though in many...

It is commonly postulated that a divide exists between the academic and the practitioner wings of the Information Systems (IS) discipline. In recent years, causes and appropriate remedial actions have been widely canvassed in the literature. The paper begins with an analysis of the literature...