As we all know, IT-business alignment has been at or near the top of the CIO issues list since the early 1990s. This means that no common wisdom has yet emerged on how to deal with it. As Cutter Senior Consultant John Berry puts it in a recent Cutter E-Mail Advisor, "Ah yes, like a weed, the alignment issue seems never to go away; perhaps because it is never fully resolved" [2]. Perhaps, but ignore this weed at your peril.