ICT and Business Alignment in Partner Network: Will the Alignment Depend on Maturities?

Effective Business/IT (BIT) alignment enables business organization to use information technology to achieve business objective more easily. In case of Partner Networks (PN), it appears through improved marketplace competitiveness, for certain organization through improved financial performance. In real world, there is always a gap between IT, business people and different companies belonging into PN, as the employees in the companies have differences in objectives, culture, mutual ignorance of others' knowledge etc. The result is a situation where cooperation in some extent is not so effective in PN as it was initially planned and which will influence the improvements in business value. The current article contributes to the BIT alignment in PN, analyzing if PN maturities influence the BIT alignment.