p. 1-112 / Submitted by Santiago Fabio (fabio.ssantiago@hotmail.com) on 2013-02-26T17:45:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 888.pdf: 994262 bytes, checksum: 4a799ea05dc1fc86237f23aea00582d7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Alice Ribeiro(malice@ufba.br) on 2013-03-02T01:54:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 888.pdf: 994262 bytes, checksum: 4a799ea05dc1fc86237f23aea00582d7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-03-02T01:54:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 888.pdf: 994262 bytes, checksum: 4a799ea05dc1fc86237f23aea00582d7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Esta dissertação foi dedicada ao estudo das possibilidades estratégicas da Tecnologia da Informação (TI). Objetivou confirmar, por intermédio de um estudo de caso, os pressupostos de que, quando existe alinhamento da TI com os objetivos essenciais do negócio, sua aplicação tende a abranger finalidades estratégicas e a propiciar o retorno esperado. Foi feita uma revisão da literatura sobre o tema e desenvolvida uma pesquisa qualitativa de natureza fenomenológica voltada para o estudo de formas e variações do fenômeno estudado em vez de suas causas e conseqüências. O estudo de caso foi caracterizado como histórico-organizacional e investigou a implementação de um projeto de educação à distância. Concluiu-se que, tanto a TI desempenhou um papel de extremo valor estratégico, quanto o retorno superou em muito as expectativas originais. Esta dissertação pretende contribuir para o aprofundamento e a expansão das pesquisas sobre as possibilidades estratégicas da utilização da TI. / Salvador

s the dependence of IS/IT has grown in modern organizations, IT investments have soared in the last couple of decades. Large amounts of money are spent with the hope that the investments will generate value for the business organizations using the systems. It is hence easy to understand the needs for methods to assess the business value of IT-investments. The investment decision is basically about selecting the best IT-system or the best combination of IT-systems, i.e. the system(s) that provides the most business value in dimensions that are important business-wise. However, a problem with many of the avail-able methods is that they often fail to concretely explain what technical characteristics the IT systems(s) should have to achieve the business value desired. A complicating aspect of IT-investment evaluations is also that the evaluations usually include a high degree of un-certainty. In this thesis, an IT investment evaluation method is presented that indicatively assesses the differences in contribution to business value from IT-investment alternatives. The method provides, at a relatively low cost of investigation, indications of not only the technical differences between the IT-investment alternatives in a specific investment situation, but also an assessment of the differences in types and amounts of their business value. The presented method has been applied in a large case study at an electric power company. Furthermore, it also incorporates concepts found within Enterprise architecture (EA), particularly in how the information used in the evaluation is collected. The presented thesis is a composite thesis that, besides an introduction, includes five papers (paper A-E). Paper A presents an outline of the method as well as its application in the case study. It also presents the theoretical fundaments for the criteria used for the technical evaluation and the business value assessment including the method’s applications in relation to Enterprise architecture. The following two papers primarily present necessary steps in the development of the method. First, paper B presents the process to develop a functional reference model (used for the functional assessments in the method), including its application in the case study. Second, a breakdown of the term business value into a set of IS/IT-affected value dimension is presented in paper C. The last two papers present the final steps, i.e. the technical evaluation of the investment alternatives (paper D) and the final business value assessment (paper E). The papers include the methods to perform these analyses as well as the application of the method in the case study and the results of the case study. / QC 20100608

Almost all businesses are affected by the current trend of digitalization. To stay competitive, they need to find the right balance between innovation and exploitation. IT-investments could result in increased efficiency, as well as other competitive advantages. To be sure that the IT- investments contributes to these expected advantages, the businesses should evaluate their IT- investment. For the systems to continue to create value and to avoid the use of outdated systems, it’s also of major importance the IT-systems are assessed at a regular basis.   The aim of this thesis is to investigate on what basis IT-investments are made, as well as what approaches organizations tend to adopt while valuating and evaluating their systems. The study was conducted through a qualitative method and the data-collection was made through semi- structured interviews with respondents from 6 different businesses who occupied positions such as chief information officer, chief digital officer and project manager. The part of empirics and analysis explains the results of the study and compares the empirical data with theory.   The result of the study shows that IT-investments often are made to match the digitalization of society and that such investments are affected by factors such as competition and customer’s requests. The result also reveals that acquisition, through Business Case, often is made to decide whether the IT-investment should carry on or discontinue. Furthermore, the result shows that the work with system management often is conducted in a controlled and thoroughly way, but that the work with evaluation isn’t sufficiently comprehensive; which the businesses is aware of and wishes to do in greater extent.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2016-06-28T14:56:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Antônio Ricardo Monteiro Marin_.pdf: 5519237 bytes, checksum: 092df886e33eade7c0b83550a8c8939e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-28T14:56:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Antônio Ricardo Monteiro Marin_.pdf: 5519237 bytes, checksum: 092df886e33eade7c0b83550a8c8939e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-14 / ESPM – Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing / Os investimentos em Tecnologia da Informação (TI) têm crescido nas últimas décadas, tanto em importância para as empresas, quanto em número de artigos publicados. Estudos acadêmicos demonstram a existência de falhas na tomada de decisão de investimentos em TI, dificuldades para o entendimento dos fatores de adoção da TI na justificativa de investimentos, inabilidade das análises para identificar os impactos intangíveis da TI e a lacuna existente no entendimento das relações entre fatores de adoção da TI e benefícios gerados para a organização. Nesse contexto, nesta pesquisa propõe-se a identificar e analisar as relações entre os fatores de adoção da TI e os benefícios intangíveis percebidos pelos gestores da organização. Para alcançar esse objetivo foi desenvolvida uma revisão da literatura envolvendo os conhecimentos relacionados ao processo de investimento em TI e aos benefícios intangíveis gerados para a organização. Foram identificados os fatores de adoção da TI relacionados às pessoas; ao ambiente da empresa; à TI, com a estratégia organizacional; e aos benefícios esperados da TI. Os benefícios intangíveis percebidos pelos gestores da organização foram relacionados, no ambiente externo, aos clientes; concorrentes; fornecedores; produtos e serviços, e no ambiente interno, aos funcionários; processos organizacionais; e informação e comunicação. O estudo foi desenvolvido através da realização de estudos de casos múltiplos em três empresas do ramo do varejo de moda que possuem uma administração central e uma rede de lojas. No total foram realizadas 24 entrevistas, sendo nove entrevistas episódicas, baseadas em um guia de entrevista, para identificar os fatores de adoção da TI que participaram do processo para a realização do investimento em TI, e mais 15 entrevistas semiestruturadas para identificar os benefícios intangíveis percebidos pelos gestores de cada uma das áreas da organização. Os resultados revelam o surgimento de novos fatores de adoção da TI e também a não ocorrência de fatores de adoção da TI, considerando-se os fundamentos teóricos examinados. A percepção dos executivos das organizações analisadas demonstra que muitos benefícios intangíveis constantes na estrutura conceitual não foram confirmados e ainda surgiram novos benefícios intangíveis não mencionados pelos autores analisados. Foram identificadas relações entre os fatores de adoção da TI e os benefícios intangíveis percebidos relacionadas aos seguintes fatores de adoção da TI: interesse dos tomadores de decisão, estrutura e suporte organizacional, processos e controles organizacionais, apoio aos objetivos estratégicos, alinhamento da TI com a estratégia e benefícios esperados da TI. A pesquisa oferece evidências que o interesse dos tomadores de decisão na realização dos investimentos em TI é percebido pela maioria dos gestores da organização; os objetivos estratégicos previstos são percebidos após a realização dos investimentos; os benefícios intangíveis esperados da TI são diferentes dos benefícios intangíveis percebidos pelos gestores da organização; os gestores com menor tempo na empresa percebem menos benefícios intangíveis gerados em relação aos gestores mais antigos na empresa. As evidências encontradas possibilitam que os executivos possam entender melhor o processo de investimento em TI através da identificação da relação entre os fatores de adoção da TI com os benefícios intangíveis percebidos e gerados para a organização. / Information Technology (IT) investments have grown in recent decades, both in importance for companies and in number of published articles. Academic studies show the existence of failures in decision-making on IT investments, difficulties in understanding the IT adoption factors in justification of investments, inability of analysis to identify the intangible impacts of IT and the gap in the understanding of the relation between IT adoption factors and benefits generated for the organization. In this context, this research proposes to identify and analyze the relation between IT adoption factors and intangible benefits perceived by the organization's managers. In order to achieve this goal it was developed a literature review involving the knowledge related to the process of IT investment and the intangible benefits generated for the organization. The IT adoption factors related to people; to the company’s environment; to IT with organizational strategy; and to expected benefits of IT were identified. Intangible benefits perceived by the organization's managers have been related in the external environment, to customers; competitors; suppliers; products and services, and in the internal environment to the employees; organizational processes; and information and communication. The study was developed by conducting multiple case studies in three companies in the fashion retail industry that have a head office and a shop network. In total 24 interviews were conducted, where nine of those were episodic interviews based on an interview guide to identify the IT adoption factors that participated in the process for the realization of IT investment, and plus 15 semi-structured interviews to identify the intangible benefits perceived by managers of each organization area. The results reveal the emergence of new IT adoption factors and also the non-occurrence of IT adoption factors, considering the theoretical foundations examined. At the analyzed organizations, the executives’ perception shows that many intangible benefits contained in the conceptual framework have not been confirmed. However new intangible benefits not mentioned by the authors emerged. Relations between IT adoption factors and the perceived intangible benefits related to the following IT adoption factors were identified: interest of decision makers; structure and organizational support; processes and organizational controls; supporting the strategic goals; IT alignment with the strategy, and expected IT benefits. The research provides evidence that the decision makers’ interest in the achievement of IT investments is perceived by the majority of the organization's managers; the expected strategic aims are realized after accomplishment of investments; expected intangible benefits of IT are different from intangible benefits perceived by the organization managers; managers with less time in the company realize less intangible benefits generated compared to senior managers in the company. The found evidences enable executives to better understand the process of investment in IT by identifying the relation between IT adoption factors with the intangible benefits perceived and generated for the organization.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.