Strategic Business/IT Alignment of Marine Service Cooperatives

The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the impact of Business-Information Technology Alignment on marine service cooperatives (MSC) and to revision the BIA prior by using data from MSC. In this research, the population is all of the cooperatives section. By using Delphi method and commends of the experts’ fourteen parameters were recognized. The population are consisted of all service cooperatives. According to the latest statistics 241 active firms have been identified in 2015 in MSC. Then, a sample size of 140 active firms was determined. In order to assessing business/IT alignment used enhanced strategic alignment maturity Luftman model as basic model. The main findings showed that the six IT-business alignment criteria has a significant effect on production cooperatives. Also, we found that the service cooperatives are the second level of maturity, the level of commitment. This level indicate that the strategic role of IT in cooperatives has not been established. But has begun identifying potential opportunities for alignment. In addition, the most common criteria noted to be important were the ability to adapt and support business changes and the stability and quality of IT services to the user service cooperatives. Finally, provided long-term and short-term strategies to improve the alignment of service cooperatives.