Review the strategic integration section. Note what strategic integration is and how it ties to the implementation of technology within an organization.

Review the information technology roles and responsibilities section. Note how IT is divided based on operations and why this is important to understand within an organization.

Two essays each for two sections (should be two pages, one page for each essay)

Course: Operational Excellence

Text book: Langer, A. M. (2018). Information Technology and Organizational Learning. 3rd edition. Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. ISBN: 978-1-4987-7575-5

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Langer (2017) highlights that strategic integration is an essential aspect of improving business performance. In simpler terms, strategic integration entails integrating and transforming individual components to improve business performance, promote efficiency, and increase profitability. It allows the organization to line up its strategic business approaches with the dynamic, ever-changing external environment (Sheehan, 2005).  Strategic integration enhances the organizational capabilities through enjoining different independent departments, groups,