A study of the causal relationship between IT governance inhibitors and its success in Korea enterprises

노트 : Proceedings of the 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2008 행사명 : 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sc

Evaluating IT Governance Structure Implementation in the Gulf Cooperation Council Region

© 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. IT governance (ITG) implementations in organizations started to gain momentum during the turn of the twenty first century mainly due to (but not limited to) the need for IT business alignment, better return of investment, effective utilization of IT and for a strategic direction of IT. This initially mandates to establish and implement a set of ITG structures in the organization to initiate, adopt, and implement relevant ITG frameworks to set in the motion of successful ITG implementation. While researchers have stated twelve relevant ITG structures that needs to be set in place, two questions remain in terms of the two factors namely \u27ease of implementation/use\u27 and \u27effectiveness\u27 of these ITG structures. With scant research in this domain, we explore the relationship of these two factors on the twelve ITG structures through a survey of senior managers involved in ITG domain in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. With diverse board and executive level cultures evident in different regions of the world, the adoption of these ITG frameworks and standards depend on the ITG practices being followed in each cultural context. The results thus assist organisations and ITG consultants in the GCC region to know the level of effectiveness of relevant ITG structures as well as the implementation effort required for these

A conceptual framework for capability sourcing modeling

Companies need to acquire the right capabilities from the right source, and the right shore, at the right cost to improve their competitive position. Capability sourcing is an organizing process to gain access to best-in-class capabilities for all activities in a firm's value chain to ensure long-term competitive advantage. Capability sourcing modeling is a technique that helps investigating sourcing alternative solutions to facilitate strategic sourcing decision making. Our position is applying conceptual models as intermediate artifacts which are schematic descriptions of sourcing alternatives based on organization's capabilities. The contribution of this paper is introducing a conceptual framework in the form of five views (to organize all perspectives) and a conceptualisation (to formulate a language) for capability sourcing modelling

The creation of business architecture heat maps to support strategy-aligned organizational decisions

The realization of strategic alignment within the business architecture has become increasingly important for companies. Indeed, it facilitates business-IT alignment as a well-designed business architecture helps both to identify the appropriate requirements for IT systems and to discover new business opportunities that can be realized by IT. However, there is a lack of alignment techniques that support organizational (re) design decisions during the operation phase as the actual performance of business architecture elements is neglected. Capability heat maps provide a useful starting point in this respect as they focus on the creation of a hierarchy of prioritized capabilities, which are characterized by a performance measure. In this paper, these techniques will be extended to support strategy-aligned decisions within the business architecture. The identification of the relevant business architecture elements is based on state-of-the-art enterprise modelling languages, which enable the development of enterprise models on distinct layers of the business architecture. Strategic alignment between these elements will be realized by using prioritization according to the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), while performance measurement will enable the creation of a proper decision support system. Afterwards, the proposed heat map will be applied on a case example to illustrate its potential use. This results in the completion of a first build-and-evaluate loop within the Design Science methodology

Impacto del gobierno de las Tecnologías de Información (TI) en el alineamiento entre negocio y TI

JEL: M150[EN] Purpose: This basic, quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional research aims to empirically examine the impact of IT governance on business-IT alignment. Method: This study adopts the Structural Equation Model (SEM) technique with Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to evaluate the relationship between IT governance and business-IT alignment, testing three basic hypotheses on the data collected from 672 web-based surveys of companies in Colombia. Main finding: IT governance significantly and directly affects business-IT alignment, but there are no differences in such influence as per industry type or company size. Limitations: This study only considered companies located in Colombia with a limited sample size in several industry types, which may become a possibility for further studies. Additionally, the data collected relies on the honesty of respondents and is not completely free of bias. KeyWords:[ES] Objetivo de la investigación: El propósito de esta investigación básica, cuantitativa, descriptiva y transversal es examinar empíricamente el impacto de la gobernanza de TI en el alineamiento de negocio y TI. Metodología: Este estudio adopta la técnica Modelo de Ecuaciones Estructurales (SEM) con Análisis Factorial Confirmatorio (CFA) con el fin de evaluar la relación planteada entre gobierno de TI y alineamiento de negocio y TI, poniendo a prueba tres hipótesis básicas, usando los datos recolectados procedentes de 672 encuestas realizadas vía web a empresas en Colombia. Hallazgos: Este estudio encontró que el gobierno de TI afecta de manera significativa y directa la alineación de negocio y de TI, pero no existen diferencias en dicha influencia entre tipos de industria y tamaños de empresa. Limitaciones: Este estudio solo tomó en cuenta empresas localizadas en Colombia con limitación en tamaño de muestra en varios sectores de actividad, lo que puede constituirse como una posibilidad para estudios posteriores. Adicionalmente, los datos recolectados están basados en la honestidad de los encuestados y no están completamente libres de sesgo.This article is the result of research within the doctoral program of Strategic Business Administration of CENTRUM Católica, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the DBA program of Maastricht School of Management. The author expresses his special thanks to Professor Beatrice Avolio, Ph. D., for her special collaboration in advising on the development of the research