Business Model Portfolios and Strategic IT/IS Alignment in the Digital Age: A Study Into (Legal) Professional Services Firms

(2025) Business Model Portfolios and Strategic IT/IS Alignment in the Digital Age: A Study Into (Legal) Professional Services Firms. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.

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This thesis examines how legal professional services firms that manage multiple business models as a portfolio can achieve strategic IT/IS alignment. It identifies three emerging, interdependent business models in law firms; explores how managing a business model portfolio with synergies and tensions can create value opportunities; and extends the IT/IS alignment discussion to organizations operating such portfolios.

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ID Code: 258983
Item Type: QUT Thesis (PhD)
Supervisor: Fielt, Erwin, Desouza, Kevin C., & Gable, Guy
Keywords: Business model portfolios, Business models, Strategic IT/IS alignment, Legal professional services, Digital technology, Business model innovation
DOI: 10.5204/thesis.eprints.258983
Divisions: Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Science
Current > Schools > School of Information Systems
Institution: Queensland University of Technology
Deposited On: 08 Aug 2025 10:09
Last Modified: 02 Jul 2026 00:06