Misalignment of Business Software and Bridging the IT Gap in Organizations that Use IT Project Management

In today’s environment technology and innovation is the essential component that can give an organization its necessary strategic advantage. Aligning Technology Management to business strategy is a basic variable to expand the organizational stability. Project Management plays a major role to align the business strategy with technology management. Thus the paper named Business software misalignment and bridging the IT gap in organizations using Information technology project management. This research focuses on the misalignment and underutilisation of software in organisations after the implementation of Information system. The findings demonstrate that a great deal needs to be done because of Information Technology (IT) Gap between Business processes and the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) framework. Since the application software package implementation is difficult, a proper understanding is required in regards to the assessment and reengineering of the current business processes of an organization to ensure that the implementation follows through on the goals set toward the beginning of the project. There are numerous factors that might add to the ineffective execution of application software packages. Data collection methodology was employed to extensively get to the bottom of the topic objectives After broad literature study, this paper proposes to characterize and examine the IT gap, and misalignment that prompts underutilisation of the application software package in organizations. Moreover, the paper presents recommendations for adjusting the business processes with the functionality of the application software to be implemented. If implemented, underutilisation will be limitedIJSRED - International Journal of Scientific Research and Engineering Developmen