Business and IT alignment, how to escape from the sand-trap

The need for the IT to be fast enough to supply Business demand, is a false problem and can even probably be dangerous, leading to disastrous solutions. Often this race creates more and more inertia to IT itself that will be less and less capable of keeping pace with the Business. In addition an IT innovations boost the business leaving IT even more in the dust, it's a vicious cycle. The approach to be fulfill is to make the Business "ride" the IT and create a virtuous circle. There are risks in insisting with the cool idea of Business-IT alignment, the way to go is to leverage a Model Driven Arcihtecture and successfully have the Business to "ride" IT. This can be obtained with discipline, applying Actionable Architectures in the organization leveraging EA, BPM and SOA essentially, not forgetting about application architectures.
The classical style development-deployment is to be replaced by a "modelling-time" approach leaving code to only enabling infrastructure and platforms: hard-coding functionalities is evil, modelling and the separation of concerns, as conceive by MDA, is the way to go.
The end point of the road-map is a Business Control Room where the business is measured and affected by IT actions.