Evaluation of Business and IT Strategic Alignment Maturity in Russian Companies

Abstract

Recently information technologies (IT) have become strategically important for businesses. It can be considered as company’s competitive advantage on global market or considerable provider of internal business processes’ efficiency. Although, "unhealthy" cooperation between corporate IT-department and its top-management may lead to some serious problems for a company. In the 1990s a term strategic alignment which stands for beneficial cooperation between Business and IT within one company was introduced. Before any changes such as implementation of new information system or business intelligence solution, business processes’ or organizational structure reengineering, it is vitally important to understand the current condition of company’s strategic alignment or literally the maturity level of this very process.