... and experts’ opinions for investing in BDA implementation. A questionnaire-based survey is conducted to collect responses from experts. The identified barriers are grouped into three categories with the help of factor analysis. These are organizational barriers, data management barriers and human barriers...

...Sam Lubbe; Dan Remenyi The aim is to address the approach and identify the assessment of the effectiveness of IT investment used by organisations, to develop a thesis of good practice in this area; and to test this thesis by reference to a focus group consisting of practitioners.The research began...

... processes. The 1990s have seen a technological shift in the construction sector from IT driven solutions to IT enabling ones. The industry, however, has become frustrated with the failing of IT as many companies have invested in the wrong technologies without addressing business needs. This is now being...

... and to support the process of investment evaluation. Drawing on the findings of an example case, we identify a number of pertinent issues and articulate future research directions towards the integration of simulation usage in the business domain. This paper reports on preliminary results of an ongoing major...

... the justification process for IT investments, this paper empirically examines the direct relationship between IT and coordination. The results of this study clearly show that IT spending is strongly associated with a decline in coordination costs. From the results, it can be inferred that IT enhances coordination...

... for the influence of information technology investment on firm productivity. We investigate this effect under conditions of both constant and non‐constant returns to scale assumptions. Our results provide some very interesting insights and recommendations. The following sections provide a brief description...

... IT projects. A procedure which would address the optimisation of these intangible relationships in the form of a genetic algorithm (GA) is proposed as a process for investment justification. These points are now extended and expanded into the generation of a revised conceptual model that is then used...

...Z. Irani; J‐N. Ezingeard; R.J. Grieve Companies are increasingly reporting their inability to justify their investment in IT/IS because of the nature of costs and benefits associated with its adoption. The reason for this is that many capital budgeting procedures rely on financially orientated...

...Zeinab A. Karake Investigates the relationship between the level of institutional ownership in a corporation and the magnitude of a company’s investment in information technology resources as measured by the relative information index (RITI) developed by the author in a previous paper. By studying...

...Zeinab A. Karake Develops a new objective measure of the levels of investment/performance in information technology (IT) by companies from different industries. This measure, called the Relative Information Technology Index (RITI),is then utilized to examine the relationship between IT investment...

...David Triggs How investments in technology are justified will often determine whether they are made. It is therefore important for managers to understand the process of decision making and evaluation in investments,including budgets, payback, and discounted cash flow. © MCB UP Limited 1993...

... can prioritize IT investments. These may be in specialized information systems, but are just as likely to be in general data manipulation tools and communication network enhancements. Environment Investment Information technology ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: DEVELOPING AN IT STRATEGY 19 E...