Failed IT projects: is poor IT governance to blame?
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Paper/Presentation Title | Failed IT projects: is poor IT governance to blame? |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Asgarkhani, Mehdi (Author), Cater-Steel, Aileen (Author), Toleman, Mark (Author) and Ally, Mustafa (Author) |
Editors | Riemer, Kai, Indulska, Marta and Tuunainen, Virpi Kristiina |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 28th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2017) |
Number of Pages | 9 |
Year | 2017 |
Place of Publication | Australia |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2017/103/ |
Web Address (URL) of Conference Proceedings | https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2017/ |
Conference/Event | 28th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2017) |
Event Details | Rank A A A A A A A A A A A A A |
Event Details | 28th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2017) Parent Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) Delivery In person Event Date 04 to end of 06 Dec 2017 Event Location Hobart, Australia |
Abstract | Today organisations both in the private and public sectors rely on Information Technology (IT) solutions and continue to make significant investments enabling business via IT. The increase in investment in IT is due to the demand for more efficient and cost-effective delivery of products and services. The dependency on IT and the increased level of investment in IT have motivated a wider accountability focus on strategic technology initiatives. Therefore, organisations have experienced a complex mix of political, organisational, technical and cultural shifts requiring far-sighted management and governance of IT. Throughout the last decade, systems, processes, standards and best practice frameworks have been developed to facilitate effective IT governance. However, a large number of IT initiatives fail to deliver. Gaining value from technology deployment via effective IT governance remains a key concern of management. This paper presents the outcome of the analysis of four IT deployment cases studies. The analysis of the four case studies demonstrated a strong connection between project failures and inadequate governance practices. |
Keywords | information technology governance, IT project failure, IT deployment, case study, qualitative analysis |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 460908. Information systems organisation and management |
Public Notes | Research In Progress Paper Abstracts #241. Copyright: © 2017 Asgarkhani, Cater-Steel, Toleman, Ally. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and ACIS are credited. |
Byline Affiliations | Ara Institute of Canterbury, New Zealand |
School of Management and Enterprise | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q4920/failed-it-projects-is-poor-it-governance-to-blame
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