Ample research has been conducted to identify the determinants of information technology (IT) adoption. No previous quantitative researchers have explored IT adoption in the context of enterprise social computing (ESC). The purpose of this study was to test and extend the social influence model of IT adoption. In addition, this study addressed a gap in the research literature and presented a model that relates the independent variables of social action, social consensus, social authority, social cooperation, perceived relative advantage, perceived compatibility, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and organizational commitment to the dependent variables of social embracement and embedment. A randomized stepwise multiple linear regression analysis was performed on survey data from 125 C-level executives (i.e., chief information officers and chief technology officers). The analysis found that executives consider perceived relative advantage, organizational commitment, and social computing action as the most significant factors relating to the adoption of ESC. Executives' perceptions about ESC could impact organizational commitment, implementation, and use of such technologies. The findings could make a social contribution within organizations by helping C-level executives understand the degree to which these factors contribute to the ESC adoption. The knowledge from this study may also help organizations derive operational effectiveness, efficiency, and create business value for their clients and society.

In recent years, IT has come to play an important role in companies. So successful execution of business processes often depends on mission-critical IT-solutions. Managing such IT is challenging. Companies have to keep up with rapid developments, but also consider long-term consequences while doing so. How do they survive in the long run without surrendering in the short run? What should be done in-house? What should be bought from external providers? How should they allocate scarce IT resources? This book answers these questions on the basis of four cases from the financial industry. After describing and analyzing IT portfolios, it investigates the questions of sourcing and technology adoption. Finally, it explores the relationship between mission-critical IT and business operations. The study suggests different ways of analyzing the role applications play in a company rather than the applications themselves. The character of an application may be in the eye of the beholder. Framing applications from both business and IT perspectives is also important, especially in information intensive companies. The Resource Allocation Matrix provides a tool for characterizing four types of IT-management efforts: agile action, firefighting, business transformation and platform construction. / Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 2003

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商務旅館營運企劃書：以資訊系統建立顧客體驗與營運效率 / This business plan is about a privately run business hotel in Bangkok city, which is near the BITEC exhibition center area. It includes hotel summary, market analysis, strategy and implementation summary, and financial plan analysis. It is explicit that there has been a continual growth in the number of travelers coming to Thailand, and the trend is also happening to the number of businessmen, especially in Bangkok. Together with the beginning of free-trade economic community, Asean Economic Community (ACE), there will be a great potential for the demand of accommodations to grow. To start a business hotel in this industry at early stage is a great decision. With the special features of hotel guest rooms and amenities and hotel booking management system at a reasonable charge, we will target customers with lower level budget and break the existing luxury style business hotels in the Bangkok areas. Our value propositions are the outstanding IT management system to facilitate the business operation, and the strategic location which will create great experience and form long-term relationship with customers.

The link between information technology (IT) and competitive advantage has been the preoccupation of many IT researchers. IT plays a key role as a necessary, but not sufficient, source of value. Prior research has in most cases investigated the direct link between IT and competitive advantage. Other researchers have examined the effect of IT on mediating factors (such as firm strategy) or applied higher order IT support for core competences in their research constructs. Only a few have recognised the potential of IT in enabling dynamic capabilities. This thesis argues that the dynamic capability perspective of strategic management provides a better insight into how IT, beyond its traditional role, needs to be converted into a higher order resource to deliver competitive advantage. The objectives of the study are therefore: (1) to apply the concept of the dynamic capability perspective to the IT-competitive advantage research in order to explicate the strategic role of IT in attaining competitive advantage; and (2) to examine the antecedent capabilities and competences that may lead towards developing adaptive IT capability. This study proposes and empirically tests a dynamic capability-based model of IT and competitive advantage. The proposed model posits adaptive IT capability as a mediating higher order resource that relies on IT capabilities (infrastructure, personnel and management) and IT support for core competences (operational and market) to influence a firm's competitive position (competitive edge in market and financial performance). The model also hypothesises that IT support for core competences can lead to competitive advantages. To test the model, data were collected from a cross- sectional sample of 203 medium- and large-sized Australian organisations. Descriptive and analytical (structural equation modelling) tools were employed to test both the measurement and structural models. The findings reveal that the developed model explained 28% of the variance in competitive advantage, 72% for adaptive IT capability, 51% for IT support for operational and market competence, demonstrating the strategic role of adaptive IT capabilities as sources of competitive advantage. This indicates that those firms that deploy IT for creating operational and market competences require a further capacity to rebuild and reconfigure their resources to improve market and financial performance. Thus, it appears that the impact of IT support for core competences on competitive advantage is not direct, but indirect through adaptive IT capability. Several IT capabilities and competences were identified as antecedents for building adaptive IT capabilities. This PhD study's main contribution lies in bridging a research gap by developing and empirically testing a model of adaptive IT capability that measures how IT can enable firms' dynamic capabilities. The model includes both the antecedent factors that build the higher order resource of adaptive IT capability (upstream factors) as well as the effect on competitive advantage (downstream factors). Practitioners can benefit from the results of this study in terms of the ramifications for investment decisions as well as to benchmark where they stand with their IT in terms of potential for value creation and business support.

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:48:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 71060100668.pdf.jpg: 17830 bytes, checksum: b31acec23e50cac4b87f8e6a19343441 (MD5) 71060100668.pdf.txt: 429671 bytes, checksum: 78fd45340c9a421d45a477214e72bacf (MD5) 71060100668.pdf: 1210154 bytes, checksum: baea48b8a27e8188e5e000e55bc1896b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-12T00:00:00Z / Escritórios de Projetos (EP) são entidades organizacionais a quem são atribuídas diversas responsabilidades relacionadas ao gerenciamento de projetos da organização. Em virtude da aceleração dos investimentos em tecnologia de informação (TI) e do aumento da importância estratégica destes investimentos, a criação destas entidades começou a se intensificar na década de 90 fora do contexto das empresas orientadas a projetos. Muito embora grandes empresas tenham criado um EP em sua área de TI (EP-TI), outras optaram por não fazer isso, o que sugere a seguinte questão de pesquisa: quais são as condições organizacionais que justificam e que não justificam a criação de EP-TI ? O método de pesquisa usado para abordar esta questão consistiu em desenvolver e testar um modelo conceitual dos direcionadores da decisão de criação de EP-TI. O modelo foi desenvolvido indutivamente a partir dos motivadores para criar ou não criar EP relatados na literatura e encontrados em quatro estudos de casos de grandes empresas brasileiras, privadas, não orientadas a projetos. Este modelo foi então testado empiricamente aplicando-se análise discriminante a dados coletados em 40 grandes empresas brasileiras. Constatou-se que apenas dois dos quatro direcionadores previstos no modelo inicial são estatisticamente significantes, a saber, a satisfação com o controle do portfolio de projetos de TI e a opinião favorável da direção da empresa sobre EP em geral. O modelo reduzido, representado pela função discriminante, resultou estatisticamente significante, com uma taxa de acerto na classificação de novas observações bastante satisfatória. Este estudo contribui para o desenvolvimento da teoria de gerenciamento de projetos através do aumento da compreensão do contexto que leva as empresas o tomar a decisão de criar ou não criar um EP-TI. Para a prática, a regra derivada da função discriminante pode ser um elemento muito útil para executivos que estão considerando se devem ou não criar um EP-TI em suas empresas, ajudando-os a tomar decisões mais eficazes. / Projects Management Offices (PMOs) are organizational entities charged with various responsibilities concerned with the management of the organization’s projects. Because of accelerated investment in information technology (IT) and the increased strategic importance of those investments, creation of such entities became more intense in the 1990s outside the context of project-oriented firms. Although some large companies did create PMOs in their IT areas (IT-PMO), others chose not to, which suggests the following research question: what are the organizational conditions that justify and do not justify the creation of IT-PMO? The research design used to address this question consisted in developing and testing a conceptual model of the drivers of the decision to create an IT-PMO. The model was inductively developed from incentives to create or not create PMOs as reported in the literature and found in four case studies with large privately-owned, non-project oriented Brazilian companies. This model was then tested empirically through the application of discriminant analysis to data collected from 40 large Brazilian companies. It was found that only two among the four drivers present in the initial model are statiscally significant, namely the satisfaction with IT project portfolio control and the management’s favorable opinion on PMOs. The reduced model, represented by the the discriminant function, resulted statiscally significant, with a very satisfactory rate of correct classifications of new observations. This study contributes to the development of project management theory by improving the understanding of the context that makes companies take the decision to create or not to create an IT-PMO. To practioners, the rule derived from the discriminant function may be a very helpful element for executives considering whether or not to create an IT-PMO at their companies, assisting them in making more effective decisions.

[pt] Essa pesquisa pretende colaborar para um melhor entendimento da importância da governança e gestão de TI, à luz da Resource-based View, para vencer os modernos desafios que se impõem às organizações públicas brasileiras em sua missão institucional de oferecer uma prestação de serviços públicos aos cidadãos com qualidade, segurança e eficiência. O estudo foi desenvolvido com base nos dados coletados pelo TCU junto às 482 organizações que responderam ao Levantamento Integrado de Governança Organizacional Pública (iGov2017). Os dados foram tratados de forma quantitativa usando as técnicas multivariadas de análise de fatores e análise de cluster. Em seguida, comparou-se o desempenho dos quatro grupos formados, em termos de observância da legislação vigente no tocante à prestação de serviços públicos com qualidade. A pesquisa revelou que 47,7 por cento das organizações exibem níveis incipientes de governança e gestão de TI com impactos na qualidade da prestação de serviços públicos. Destacam-se negativamente os índices de gestão de riscos, gestão de níveis de serviço de TI e gestão da segurança da informação. Em contrapartida, 19 por cento das organizações revelaram níveis satisfatórios de resultados e maturidade de governança e gestão de TI. As evidências encontradas apontam uma correlação positiva entre a qualidade da governança e gestão de TI e os resultados finalísticos das organizações. Os resultados dessa pesquisa sugerem que uma orquestração multifacetada, harmônica e complexa, que assegure um alinhamento consistente e contínuo entre decisões estratégicas, alinhamento estratégico de TI, gestão de riscos, gestão e governança de TI, afeta decisivamente o desempenho das organizações brasileiras. / [en] This research aims to contribute towards a better understanding of the importance of IT governance and IT management, according to the Resource-based View, in order to overcome the modern challenges Brazilian public organizations face as part of their institutional mission of providing proper quality, secure and efficient public services to the citizens. The study was developed based on the data collected by the TCU from 482 organizations that responded to the Integrated Survey of Public Organizational Governance (iGov2017). The data was treated quantitatively using multivariate techniques such as common factor analysis and cluster analysis. Furthermore, a performance comparison of the concluding four groups was conducted, in terms of compliance with the current legislation regarding provision of high-quality public services. The survey revealed that 47,7 percent of the organizations exhibited incipient levels of IT governance and IT management with impacts on the quality of the public services provision. Indexes on risk management, IT service level management and information security management stood out negatively. On the other hand, 19 percent of the organizations showed satisfactory levels of results and maturity of IT governance and IT management. Evidence indicates that there is a positive correlation between the quality of IT governance and IT management and the targeted results of the organizations. The outcome of this research suggests that a complex, harmonious multifaceted orchestration that ensures a consistent and continuous alignment between strategic decisions, IT strategic alignment, risk management, IT governance and IT management decisively affects Brazilian public organizations performance.

nÃo hà / A utilizaÃÃo da Tecnologia da InformaÃÃo (TI) està presente no cotidiano das instituiÃÃes corporativas fazendo com que a gestÃo da TI seja essencial, pois ampara os objetivos estratÃgicos de uma organizaÃÃo. Nas instituiÃÃes de ensino , o uso da TI auxilia nos processos de ensino, pesquisa e extensÃo. Assim sendo, este estudo tem como principal objetivo realizar uma investigaÃÃo nas InstituiÃÃes Federais de Ensino Superior do Brasil (IFES), quanto à gestÃo da TI propost a pela governanÃa d e TI, avalia ndo a eficiÃncia relativa por meio da AnÃlise EnvoltÃria de Dados (DEA). O estudo a presenta os conceitos da governanÃa e gestÃo da TI, os principais frameworks utilizados para prover o gerenciamento da TI, o Ãndice de governanÃa da TI (IgovTI) da Administr aÃÃo PÃblica Federal (APF) medido pelo Tribunal de Contas da UniÃo (TCU) e as principais caracterÃsticas do mÃtodo DEA. A abordagem da pesquisa à quantitativa, pois teve como base os dados do Ãltimo levantamento de governanÃa de TI realizado pelo TCU nos e ntes da APF. A natureza da pesquisa à do tipo aplicada, classificada quanto aos objetivos como exploratÃria, sendo o lÃcus da pesquisa as IFES . A anÃlise descritiva dos dados coletados apresentou que 36,43% das IFES nÃo adotam as prÃticas de gestÃo da TI e somente 12,26% exercem integralmente as prÃticas. Os fatores com maiores Ãndices de adoÃÃo das prÃticas de gestÃo da TI foi o plano de TI vigente ( input ) com 40,40% das IFES adotando integralmente e 27,27% parcialmente; e o fator contrataÃÃo de TI ( outpu t ) com 42,42% das IFES realizando integralmente e 17,17% parcialmente. AtravÃs da definiÃÃo do ranking de eficiÃncia entre as IFES constatou - se que d entre as 99 IFES analisadas 66 foram classificadas como eficientes e 33 como ineficientes. / The use of Information Technology (IT) is present in the daily life of corporate institutions, making IT management essential because it supports the strategic objectives of an organization. In educational institutions, the use of IT helps in learning, research and extension processes. Therefore, this study has as main objective to investigate in the Federal Institutions of Higher Education of Brazil (I FES), regarding IT management proposed by IT governance, evaluating the relative efficiency using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Besides, this study presents the concepts of IT governance and management, the main frameworks used to provide IT management, the IT Governance Index (IgovTI) of the Federal Public Administration (APF) as measured by the Brazilian Court of Audit (TCU) and the main characteristics of the DEA method. The research approach is quantitative, as it based on data from the last survey o f IT governance conducted by the TCU in APF entities. The nature of the research is of the applied type, classified as the objectives as exploratory, being the locus of the research the IFES. The descriptive analysis of the collected data showed that 36.43 % of the IFES did not adopt IT management practices and only 12.26% carried out the practices in full. The factors with the highest adoption rates of IT management practices were the current IT plan (input) with 40.40% of IFES adopting in full and 27.27% i n part, and the IT contracting factor (output) with 42.42% of the IFES performing entirely and 17.17% partially. Through the definition of the efficiency ranking among the IFES, it verified that among the 99 IFES analyzed 66 was classified as efficient and 33 as inefficient.

Cloud services are now widely used, especially in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), with big players offering several purchasing options, and expanding almost daily the range of offered services. Cost reduction is a major factor promoting cloud services adoption. However, qualitative factors need to be evaluated as well, making the decision process of cloud services adoption a non-trivial task for managers. In this work, we propose a Petri net-based multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework, in order to evaluate a cloud service in relation to a similar on-premises offer. The evaluation of both options considers cost and qualitative issues in a novel and simple method that incorporates best practices from academy and IT specialists. Furthermore, the use of Petri net models allows powerful extensions to perform deeper analysis of specific factors as needed. The framework can be helpful for IT managers to decide between the two options, and can be used for any type of cloud service (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS). Since cost is one of the most important factors promoting cloud adoption, we proceed with a deeper analysis of one important cost factor. We propose a Petri net to model cost savings using public clouds spot Instances purchasing option. Through extensive simulations in several scenarios we conclude that spot Instances can be a very interesting option for savings in auto scaling process, even in simple business applications using only a few servers. Exploring different purchasing options for cloud services can make the difference in the decision making process. / Atualmente, os serviÃos em nuvem sÃo amplamente utilizados, principalmente em infraestrutura como serviÃo (IaaS), com grandes fornecedores oferecendo vÃrias opÃÃes de compra e expandindo quase diariamente a gama de serviÃos oferecidos. A reduÃÃo de custos à o principal fator que promove a adoÃÃo de serviÃos em nuvem. No entanto, à preciso avaliar tambÃm fatores qualitativos, o que torna o processo de decisÃo de adoÃÃo de serviÃos em nuvem uma tarefa pouco trivial para os gestores. Este trabalho propÃe um modelo para tomada de decisÃo multicritÃrio (MDMC) utilizando redes de Petri para avaliar um serviÃo de nuvem comparado com um serviÃo disponibilizado localmente (on-premises), nas dependÃncias do usuÃrio. A avaliaÃÃo das duas opÃÃes considera questÃes qualitativas e de custo atravÃs de um mÃtodo novo e simples, que incorpora as melhores prÃticas de especialistas da academia e de tecnologia da informaÃÃo (TI). AlÃm disso, o uso de redes de Petri permite extensÃes poderosas para realizar anÃlises mais profundas de fatores especÃficos, conforme a necessidade de cada cenÃrio. O modelo pode ser Ãtil para apoiar gestores de TI na decisÃo entre as duas opÃÃes e pode ser usado para qualquer tipo de serviÃo de nuvem (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS). Como o custo à um dos fatores mais importantes para a adoÃÃo da nuvem, procedemos a uma anÃlise mais profunda de um fator de custo importante. à apresentada uma extensÃo ao modelo, tambÃm construÃdo com redes de Petri, para simular economias de custo usando uma determinada opÃÃo de compra de serviÃos em nuvens pÃblicas, as instÃncias spot. AtravÃs de extensas simulaÃÃes em vÃrios cenÃrios, o trabalho conclui que a utilizaÃÃo de instÃncias spot pode gerar uma grande economia no processo de escalonamento automÃtico, mesmo em aplicaÃÃes relativamente simples, utilizando apenas alguns servidores. Explorar diferentes opÃÃes de compra para os serviÃos em nuvem faz uma enorme diferenÃa nos custos e pode ter grande influÃncia no processo de tomada de decisÃo.