Tieto- ja viestintäteknisten kehitystarpeiden esivalmistelu

Toiminnallisen opinnäytetyön tarkoituksena oli selvittää, miten toimintaympäristön muutoksista johtuvat tieto- ja viestintätekniset kehitystarpeet saadaan selville riittävän ajoissa ja miten kehitystarpeiden valmisteluvaihe tulee toteuttaa. Tavoitteena oli kehittää Tullin toimintaympäristöön soveltuva toimintamalli, jossa huomioidaan julkisen hallinnon ja Tullin strateginen linjaus käynnistää tietohallintolain (10.6.2011/634) mukainen kokonaisarkkitehtuurityö. Opinnäytetyössä sovellettiin konstruktiivisen tutkimuksen lähestymistapaa. Opinnäytetyöprosessin aikana kehitettiin olemassa olevaa tietopohjaa hyödyntäen uusi toimintamalli tieto- ja viestintäteknisten kehitystarpeiden esivalmisteluun. Tuotoksen tietoperustana käytettiin valtiovarainministeriön aineistoja julkisen hallinnon tieto- ja viestintätekniikan yhteisestä ohjauksesta, tietohallintolakia ja julkisen hallinnon suosituksia kokonaisarkkitehtuurityön käynnistämiseksi. Toimintamalli kuvattiin tuotokseen ja raportissa selostettiin kehittämisprosessi. Valintoja perusteltiin tietohallintomallilla sekä tietohallinnon ja liiketoiminnan yhteistyötä käsittelevillä aineistoilla. Tieto- ja viestintäteknisten kehitystarpeiden esivalmistelun toimintamalli kytkeytyy Tullin strategiaan ja täyttää tietohallintolain velvoitteet. Kehitystarpeiden esivalmistelu mahdollistaa kokonaisarkkitehtuurityön kokonaisvaltaisen käynnistämisen. Tieto- ja viestintäteknisiin kehitystarpeisiin on saatu parempi näkyvyys. ICT-kehityssalkussa on tällä hetkellä noin 180 tunnistettua kehitystarvetta. Toimintamallia ja kehityssalkun sisältöä on jatkokehitettävä ennen varsinaisen kokonaisarkkitehtuurityön käynnistämistä ja kehitystarpeisiin pohjautuvan toteutussuunnitelman laatimista.The purpose of this study was to create a management process for identifying the ICT development needs in Finnish Customs that commissioned the present thesis. The aim was to develop a management model based on strategy and the Act on Information Management Governance in Public Administration (10.6.2011/634). The law requires that all public administration has to adopt the common enterprise architecture. Finnish Customs is a public central state agency and, therefore, Customs IT Department needed to ensure that the operating model comply with the law. This study applied constructive research methodology. The work was based on the analysis of the Public Administration recommendations, which provides guidelines for the use of enterprise architecture. Taking into account Public Sector ICT Strategy, the Act on Information Management Governance in Public Administration and the operational situation, the new construction was created in practice. During the thesis process, the ICT development portfolio was created together with instructions to collect and classify the ICT development needs at Finnish Customs. Choices were based on the IT Governance Model and the reference material. As the result of this thesis, a process was developed and implemented. The Public Admin-istration recommendations include useful information about enterprise architecture but Finnish Customs IT Department could not use them directly. The new operating model meets the requirements of the law, but further development is needed. Nowadays the ICT development portfolio includes about 180 ICT needs which IT Department has to manage. How to do it is a challenge for the next stage of development

Construction informatics in Turkey: strategic role of ICT and future research directions

Construction Informatics deals with subjects ranging from strategic management of ICTs to interoperability and information integration in the construction industry. Studies on defining research directions for Construction Informatics have a history over 20 years. The recent studies in the area highlight the priority themes for Construction Informatics research as interoperability, collaboration support, intelligent sites and knowledge sharing. In parallel, today it is widely accepted in the Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) industry that ICT is becoming a strategic asset for any organisation to deliver business improvement and achieve sustainable competitive advantage. However, traditionally the AEC industry has approached investing in ICT with a lack of strategic focus and low level of priority to the business. This paper presents a recent study from Turkey that is focused on two themes. The first theme investigates the strategic role of ICT implementations from an industrial perspective, and explores if organisations within the AEC industry view ICT as a strategic resource for their business practice. The second theme investigates the ‘perspective of academia’ in terms of future research directions of Construction Informatics. The results of the industrial study indicates that ICT is seen as a value-adding resource, but a shift towards the recognition of the importance of ICT in terms of value adding in winning work and achieving strategic competitive advantage is observed. On the other hand, ICT Training is found to be the theme of highest priority from the academia point of view

Construction informatics in Turkey: strategic role of ICT and future research directions

Construction Informatics deals with subjects ranging from strategic management of ICTs to interoperability and information integration in the construction industry. Studies on defining research directions for Construction Informatics have a history over 20 years. The recent studies in the area highlight the priority themes for Construction Informatics research as interoperability, collaboration support, intelligent sites and knowledge sharing. In parallel, today it is widely accepted in the Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) industry that ICT is becoming a strategic asset for any organisation to deliver business improvement and achieve sustainable competitive advantage. However, traditionally the AEC industry has approached investing in ICT with a lack of strategic focus and low level of priority to the business. This paper presents a recent study from Turkey that is focused on two themes. The first theme investigates the strategic role of ICT implementations from an industrial perspective, and explores if organisations within the AEC industry view ICT as a strategic resource for their business practice. The second theme investigates the ‘perspective of academia’ in terms of future research directions of Construction Informatics. The results of the industrial study indicates that ICT is seen as a value-adding resource, but a shift towards the recognition of the importance of ICT in terms of value adding in winning work and achieving strategic competitive advantage is observed. On the other hand, ICT Training is found to be the theme of highest priority from the academia point of view

ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks: a literature review

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation is a complex and vibrant process, one that involves a combination of technological and organizational interactions. Often an ERP implementation project is the single largest IT project that an organization has ever launched and requires a mutual fit of system and organization. Also the concept of an ERP implementation supporting business processes across many different departments is not a generic, rigid and uniform concept and depends on variety of factors. As a result, the issues addressing the ERP implementation process have been one of the major concerns in industry. Therefore ERP implementation receives attention from practitioners and scholars and both, business as well as academic literature is abundant and not always very conclusive or coherent. However, research on ERP systems so far has been mainly focused on diffusion, use and impact issues. Less attention has been given to the methods used during the configuration and the implementation of ERP systems, even though they are commonly used in practice, they still remain largely unexplored and undocumented in Information Systems research. So, the academic relevance of this research is the contribution to the existing body of scientific knowledge. An annotated brief literature review is done in order to evaluate the current state of the existing academic literature. The purpose is to present a systematic overview of relevant ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks as a desire for achieving a better taxonomy of ERP implementation methodologies. This paper is useful to researchers who are interested in ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks. Results will serve as an input for a classification of the existing ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks. Also, this paper aims also at the professional ERP community involved in the process of ERP implementation by promoting a better understanding of ERP implementation methodologies and frameworks, its variety and history

An Approach to Transform Public Administration into SOA-based Organizations

Nowadays, Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is widely spread in private organizations. However, when transferring this knowledge to Public Administration, it is realized that it has not been transformed in terms of its legal nature into organizations capable to operate under the SOA paradigm. This fact prevents public administration bodies from offering the efficient services they have been provided by different boards of governments. A high-level framework to perform this transformation is proposed. Taking it as starting point, an instance of a SOA Target Meta-Model can be obtained by means of an iterative and incremental process based on the analysis of imperatives and focused on the particular business context of each local public administration. This paper briefly presents a practical experience consisting in applying this process to a Spanish regional public administration.Junta de Andalucía TIC-578

Management and architecture click: The FAD(E)E Framework.

Enterprises are living things. They constantly need to be (re-)architected in order to achieve the necessary agility, alignment and integration. This paper gives a high-level overview of how companies can go about doing 'enterprise architecture' in the context of both the classic (isolated) enterprise and the Extended Enterprise. By discussing the goals that are pursued in an enterprise architecture effort we reveal some basic requirements that can be put on the process of architecting the enterprise. The relationship between managing and architecting the enterprise is discussed and clarified in the FAD(E)E, the Framework for the Architectural Development of the (Extended) Enterprise.Management; Architecture; Framework;

The role of use cases in development of a reference framework for interoperability of data exchange in agriculture

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Thought for Food: the impact of ICT on agribusiness

This report outlines the impact of ICT on the food economy. On the basis of a literature review from four disciplines - knowledge management, management information systems, operations research and logistics, and economics - the demand for new ICT applications, the supply of new applications and the match between demand and supply are identified. Subsequently the impact of new ICT applications on the food economy is discussed. The report relates the development of new technologies to innovation and adoption processes and economic growth, and to concepts of open innovations and living lab