HOW CAN IT STIMULATE THE COMPANY'S BUSINESS?

IT is critical to many organizations' success ensuring quality, effectiveness and efficiency in the business' processes and competitive advantages. Today IT becomes part of the business processes. In a complex and competitive world, characterized in the last years by deep changes, instability and incertitude, the quality of the company strategy and its alignment with IT strategy becomes a milestone. Due to the importance of IT to the overall business, the IT specific risks can induce failure to achieve strategic objectives. Adopting an integrated view of IT risk represents a milestone of the risk management process. The present paper presents the authors' research results regarding the importance of the IT and business strategy alignment, the necessity to built a global IT risk solution and manage all the risks, no matter of their nature, in a holistic approach, underlying the impact of the inadequate IT risk management on the organizations' activity.