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Measuring Performance of IT departments in Swedish municipalities

<p>Every modern organization relies on information systems and has a need formeasuring the performance of those systems and the IT department. It is furthermorewanted to be able to compare oneself to others. Municipalities struggle with theabsence of an instrument designed for their specific needs and circumstances becausemost instruments are designed for profit organizations, focus heavily on technical andeconomical criteria and do not involve criteria that are easy to compare. In this projectthe success factor analysis, a performance measurement instrument, is selected,modified and finally applied in two Swedish municipalities to investigate thesignificance of this instrument and its ability to identify significant factors of success.With interpreting the data gathered using on-line surveys, similarities and comparablecriteria as well as eight significant factors could be identified that are genericthroughout all surveys done.</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:his-4168
Date January 2010
CreatorsWinkler, Michael
PublisherUniversity of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, text

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