This 18 page executive summary paper provides an overview of the findings of the 2008 Strategic Alignment Performance study. The study of 269 IT organizations suggests that aligning an IT organization’s value archetype to strategic key success factors is a powerful way to optimize strategic alignment. The IT value archetype model can be used to help IT organization optimize alignment at three levels: 1) archetype fit to strategy, 2) attributes within and archetype, and 3) practices that predict the highest alignment performance for each archetype group.