Current Issue : October - December Volume : 2011 Issue Number : 4 Articles : 4 Articles
Since the introduction of computer technology into organizations in the 1960s, there have been numerous attempts to develop models of Information systems/Information Technology (IS/IT) maturity. The maturity models are based on the premise that the planning process, development or adoption, use and management of IS/IT organizations, evolves through a learning process that can move through stages of maturity. If these stages (and their associated features) can be identified, could then be used to develop a plan for the IS and provide guidelines for action for the orderly progression through several stages from the current\nculture of the organization. This work focuses the e-business maturity stages of Portuguese SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) and large enterprises. Our goal is to identify in which e-business maturity stage they are and explore the relationship between their e-business maturity and the associated constrains to e-business evolution (previously identified in an exploratory study)....
The promise of competitiveness that clouds offer to enterprises creates a substantial part of the cloud phenomenon. 2010 European Union report on cloud computing identifies the strong commercial nature of clouds and addresses new policies and actions for the competitiveness of European industry. Today, European Union attributes competitiveness to the smart growth of SMEs. The concept of smart growth is based on effective policies that foster innovation and capability to adopt the dynamics of information society. This paper aims at exploring the policymaking methods for cloud computing that will serve to enhance the competitiveness of SMEs. It analyses the dynamics of Turkish policy-making and discusses the role of EU policies in a candidate country as the motivators of migration to clouds. It is an output of an ongoing research on cloud \r\ncomputing in Turkey. This paper contributes to the literature as being one of the first studies on policy-making for cloud computing. It provides a twofold policy tool proposed for policy-makers. First, it identifies the dynamics of policy-making by adapting the model of Van Schendelen�s general categories of decision buttons for EU lobbying to the Turkish policy-making mechanisms. Secondly, it detects the main patterns of cloud computing policy under five priority areas as a check list for\r\npolicy-makers....
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is one of the most popular software technologies for supporting operational organization. It emphasizes business transformation which will lead to process change in its effort to maximize the company�s benefit. However, implementation of ERP system does not always give a strategic benefit for the company. Most companies did not succeed in implementing this system. In this study, we focused on the exploration of strategical and tactical impact induced by the implementation of ERP and to find out the correlation among ERP implementation success with the strategical and tactical impact. Thirty-five respondents from seven companies became the samples that represent four different industrial sectors (oil & service, manufacturing, telecommunication, automotive). It was found that ERP implementation gave more impact to tactical level than to strategical level. This is derived from data analysis using Spearman rank test which shows that ?yx1 = 0.167 (not significant with\r\np<0.05) and ?yx2 = 0.813 (significant with p<0.01). Thus, specifically for Indonesian companies, the present study shows that ERP implementation acted only as a support toward the core business instead of creating a competitive advantage. The reasons behind these findings are: (1) the companies were not ready to make big investment for implementing all modules in ERP, including the specific modules; (2) the companies were afraid to fail in their implementation, so they chose to implement the modules only for supporting the core business; (3) the ERP \r\nimplementations were not driven by the organizations� business needs, but by the technology itself; (4) there were other external factors which forced the companies to implement ERP, such as: government policy, bank policy and political issue....
Despite the popularity of Information Technology and job satisfaction research, little empirical evidence (to the researcher's knowledge) exists of the relationship between IT adoption and job satisfaction within the Jordanian construction industry. This research attempts to fill these knowledge gaps by exploring the relationship between IT adoption and job satisfaction from the perspective of Jordanian contracting firms. Measures were developed using MSQ and IT Barometer surveys. 50 questionnaires were distributed to investigate this relationship among different contracting companies in Jordan. Descriptive statistics were obtained and hypotheses were tested using multiple regression analysis. Results point out that more investment in technology would rather increase employee job satisfaction regarding intrinsic and general perspectives....
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