Hyper Analysis Toolkit (HAT): A Case Study in Faculty Developed Software

The availability of inexpensive, high-powered personal computing environments i.s revolutionizing the business of higher education. The past “textbook-centric”world of academia is rapidly changing into a new “software-centric’’form. As such, many faculty are now interested in creating educational software but, because the process is unlike that of writing a textbook, have little experience with or understanding of the task

The Adoption of TradeNet by the Trading Community: An Empirical Analysis

This paper reports on a11empirical investigation of the adoption of TradeNet by the trading community in Singapore. Two issues are investigated. First, we examine the factors that determine the timing of TradeNet adoption by the trading community in a coercive institutional environment. Second, we analyze post-adoption performances of the trading community. Lessons on the implementation of IT at a nationwide level ensue

Firm Context and Patterns of IT Infrastructure Capability (Best Paper Award)

The importance of a firm’s information technology (IT) infrastructure capability is increasingly recognised as critical to firm competitiveness. This is particularly the case for firms in industries going through dynamic change, for firms reengineering their business processes, and for those with extensive international or geographically dispersed operations. However, the notion of IT infrastructure is still evolving and there has been very little empirically based research on the patterns of IT infrastructure capability across firms

INFORMATION SYSTEMS ACADEMICS: ADVOCATING POLITICAL DECISION MAKING TO EXPAND IMPACT AND RELEVANCE?

For IS academics to provide political consulting and to offer expertise in political decision making would seem to open enormous opportunities for \u27doing good\u27 and for reinforcing the relevance of the IS field. However, the contributions of IS academics to political decision making are minor compared to our colleagues in other fields. This panel will offer the personal views of panel members on their involvement in different political activities and will explore the pros and cons of senior and junior IS academics getting involved in these activities from an individual\u27s, a school\u27s, and a community\u27s perspective. It should be of interest to those who wish to learn about political consulting in the field of IS, to those who have been involved in political activities, and to those who want to discuss the role of ICT-related experience to in the field of public decision making and regulation

Reengineering Effectiveness and the Redesign of Organizational Control: A Case Study of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore

While much publicity and hype surrounds business process reengineering, little attention has been paid to consequential management issues such as compression of responsibilities and the reduction of checks and controls. Redesigned processes require a corresponding alignment in organizational control to sustain reengineering effectiveness. Inadequate attention to these issues can expose reengineered systems to excessive risks or produce reengineering attempts that are prematurely self-defeating as they contradict the underlying control philosophy. This paper addresses the question of whether traditional management controls have been eliminated, compromised, or rendered irrelevant amid such dynamic organizational changes, and, if so, how the management control function in a reengineered organization evolves. This question was explored through an intensive case study of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore. The analysis suggests a restructuring of control dependency through automation and cooperation with external agencies, a shift in management practices toward more refined segmentation of control practices and greater leverage on back-end control, and increased reliance on outcome control. The challenge of ensuring proper implementation of such controls, given the deep-rooted traditional control culture, is not trivial. Implications and suggestions for assessing the risks and benefits of organizational control are discussed

Managing risks in information technology projects

The purpose of this study is to examine how IT project risks may be evaluated and managed during project execution