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Abstract— This Paper proposes a theoretical framework to evaluate IT Investments based on Composite IT Balanced Scorecard (IT BSC) which takes into consideration Behavioral Dimension represented by Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of... more
Organizations expenditure on Information technology (IT) related investments continue to rise in the face of the fierce competition in the various marketplaces. Nevertheless, the problem of evaluating such investments remains a challenge... more
This paper discusses the IT productivity paradox in the banking sector (US banking in particular) and the fundamental justifications for the continuing and expanding IT investment in the banking industry. Given the dramatic increase in IT... more
In this paper the authors propose a link between the Benefits Dependency Network, from a Benefits Management approach, and a Strategy Map, from Balanced Scorecard, to improve the management of business benefits and to ensure that actions... more
Recently there have been many attempts to understand and measure the returns from information technology (IT) investments in public sector. Initially, most of the methodologies and models were based on traditional financial models.... more
The electricity supply industry is highly capital-intensive, whose success depends critically upon the management of its investment. In most developing countries investment is poorly managed, poorly maintained, and often inadequate.... more
While researchers have encouraged further examination on the causal links between Information Technology (IT) investments and a firm’s performance, results of empirical studies have been varied. This is to a certain extent due to the... more
We are living in a period of enormous technological transformations and the organizations face new opportunities that the systems and information technology (IS/IT) implementations provide with the hope that these investments will help to... more
This paper focuses on the comparison of corporate social responsibility in mining industry. It compares specific territorial areas of two different countries – one of them country that could be called as semi-periphery or even core... more
Strategic alignment is a topic which has received considerable attention over the last decades. There are many reasons why organisations have performed strategic alignment, but perhaps the most critical one is that it can help them... more
An important element of IT governance is the provision of robust IT capability. The concept of process capability maturity provides a useful methodology for the measurement and analysis of the state of IT capability. The COBIT IT... more
Many organizations today need to deliver more complex products and services in a better, faster, and cheaper way. The business problems that some companies address require enterprise-wide solutions that call for an integrated approach and... more
Normalmente, los métodos de medición del valor que las inversiones de sistemas de información y tecnologías de información tienen para el negocio, están orientados hacia las grandes empresas. Las pequeñas y medianas empresas muchas veces... more
We are living in a period of enormous technological transformations and the organisations face new opportunities that the IS/IT implementations provide with the hope that these investments will help to increase productivity and business... more
This paper develops and tests a model to examine the effects of information technology (IT) in the US banking industry. It is believed that IT can improve bank’s performance in two ways: IT can reduce operational cost (cost effect), and... more
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are among the largest information technology (IT) investments made by firms. Such systems are diffusing rapidly in the Nordic-Baltic region of Europe. While studies discuss the diffusion of ERP... more
E-business environments pose unique challenges to the measurement of information technology payoff. In this paper we discuss some of those challenges as stemming from issues such as the productivity paradox, level of measurement, choice... more