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作者：Keil, M; Tan, BCY; Wei, KK; Saarinen, T; Tuunainen, V; Wassenaar, A
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; National University of Singapore; Aalto University; University of Twente
摘要：One of the most challenging decisions that a manager must confront is whether to continue or abandon a troubled project. Published studies suggest that failing software projects are often allowed to continue for too long before appropriate management action is taken to discontinue or redirect the efforts. The level of sunk cost associated with such projects has been offered as one explanation for this escalation of commitment behavior. What prior studies fail to consider is how concepts from r...
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作者：Swanson, EB; Dans, E
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; IE University
摘要：Aging information systems are expensive to maintain and most are eventually retired and replaced. But what determines (in the choices made by managers) whether and when a system reaches end-of-life? What shapes managers' judgements about a system's remaining life expectancy and do these judgments influence the maintenance effort itself? System maintenance and prospective replacement are examined here in new terms, positing that managers equilibrate (balance) their allocation of maintenance eff...
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作者：Taudes, A; Feurstein, M; Mild, A
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business
摘要：In recent years, the use of option pricing models to support IT investment decisions has been proposed in the MIS literature. In this paper, we discuss the practical advantages of such techniques for the selection of a software platform. First, we argue that traditional quantitative approaches to a cost-benefit analysis give only a partial picture of such decision situations: due to the long planning horizon required because of the time-consuming and resource-intensive implementation process, ...
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作者：Cooper, RB
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：Many calls for reengineering suggest that information technology (IT) can be employed to enable significant organizational change. However, organizational inertia typically inhibits such change, resulting in IT development that reflects the organizational status quo. Of interest, then, are strategies and techniques that can be employed to support IT-enabled reengineering. Key to such reengineering is creativity. Therefore, this paper attempts to better understand creativity during IT requireme...
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作者：Roepke, R; Agarwal, R; Ferratt, TW
作者单位：3M; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Ohio; University of Dayton
摘要：Increasingly, business leaders are demanding that IT play the role of a business partner and a strategic enabler. In such an environment, IT human capital has assumed considerable significance. Insightful IT leaders recognize that the greatest impediments to success often to people rather than to information, technology, and systems. What is not quite clear to IT leaders, however, is exactly how to develop and leverage this human capital in support of business needs. The transformation of IT f...
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作者：Benaroch, M; Kauffman, RJ
作者单位：Syracuse University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：The application of real options analysis to information technology investment evaluation problems recently has been proposed in the IS literature (Chalasani et al. 1997; Dos Santos 1991, Kambil et al. 1993; Kumar 1996; Taudes 1998). The research reported on in this paper illustrates the value of applying real options analysis in the context of a case study involving the deployment of point-of-sale (POS) debit services by the Yankee 24 shared electronic banking network of New England. in the co...
