Electronic government interoperability -- Value configurations of organizations -- Resource theory of organizations -- Information resource integration -- Stages of e-government interoperability -- Frameworks for aligned development -- Strategic planning for alignment -- Governance structure for...

1. Outsourcing opportunities -- 2. Theoretical foundations -- 3. Critical success factors -- 4. Value configurations -- 5. Maturity in outsourcing relationships -- 6. Costs, benefits, and risks -- 7. Knowledge transfer -- 8. Outsourcing performance -- 9. Outsourcing governance -- 10. Case study...

"This book presents business-technology alignment processes, interaction processes, and decision making processes, in order to help the reader study information technology from a dynamic, rather than a static, perspective. By introducing two simple tools from system dynamic modeling - causal...