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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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Culture Influence on IT Governance : What We Have Learned?
- 2017
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In: Organizational Culture and Behavior. - : IGI Global. - 9781522519133 - 9781522519140 ; , s. 1329-1346
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Managers face enormous challenges today to plan the decision rights and responsibilities in order to reach desired IT behaviors which are aligned with business objectives of organizations. This is known as IT governance and is ranked as one of the firms' top concerns. Not surprisingly, it is crucial for organizations to find the affecting factors on IT governance and solve the problems associated with it. Culture in national, organizational or group level is an affecting factor in organizations that can play a role in IT governance and this role is rarely explored in academic research. This paper provides a literature review investigating the influence of culture on IT governance. The research purpose is to identify how culture and IT governance in the companies can be linked together and promote this area for future research. The literature review is done systematically and the findings are classified by using an IT governance framework with three main components of structures, processes and relational mechanisms. The results indicate there is an influence from national and organizational culture on IT governance. However, the number of studies is very few and there is still a lack of knowledge on how culture can influence IT governance. This research calls upon a further research on culture impact on achieving an effective IT governance implementation in organizations.
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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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Culture Influence on IT Governance : What We Have Learned?
- 2014
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In: International Journal of IT - Business Alignment and Governance. - : IGI Global. - 1947-9611 .- 1947-962X. ; 5:1
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Managers face enormous challenges today to plan the decision rights and responsibilities in order to reach desired IT behaviors which are aligned with business objectives of organizations. This is known as IT governance and is ranked as one of the firms' top concerns. Not surprisingly, it is crucial for organizations to find the affecting factors on IT governance and solve the problems associated with it. Culture in national, organizational or group level is an affecting factor in organizations that can play a role in IT governance and this role is rarely explored in academic research. This paper provides a literature review investigating the influence of culture on IT governance. The research purpose is to identify how culture and IT governance in the companies can be linked together and promote this area for future research. The literature review is done systematically and the findings are classified by using an IT governance framework with three main components of structures, processes and relational mechanisms. The results indicate there is an influence from national and organizational culture on IT governance. However, the number of studies is very few and there is still a lack of knowledge on how culture can influence IT governance. This research calls upon a further research on culture impact on achieving an effective IT governance implementation in organizations.
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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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Culture Influence on IT Governance : What We Have Learned?
- 2018
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In: Technology Adoption and Social Issues. - : IGI Global. - 9781522552017 - 9781522552024 ; , s. 139-156
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Managers face enormous challenges today to plan the decision rights and responsibilities in order to reach desired IT behaviors which are aligned with business objectives of organizations. This is known as IT governance and is ranked as one of the firms' top concerns. Not surprisingly, it is crucial for organizations to find the affecting factors on IT governance and solve the problems associated with it. Culture in national, organizational or group level is an affecting factor in organizations that can play a role in IT governance and this role is rarely explored in academic research. This paper provides a literature review investigating the influence of culture on IT governance. The research purpose is to identify how culture and IT governance in the companies can be linked together and promote this area for future research. The literature review is done systematically and the findings are classified by using an IT governance framework with three main components of structures, processes and relational mechanisms. The results indicate there is an influence from national and organizational culture on IT governance. However, the number of studies is very few and there is still a lack of knowledge on how culture can influence IT governance. This research calls upon a further research on culture impact on achieving an effective IT governance implementation in organizations.
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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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Does Organizational Culture Matter in IT Outsourcing Relationships?
- 2015
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In: 2015 48TH HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (HICSS). - : IEEE Computer Society. - 9781479973675 ; , s. 4691-4699
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- IT Outsourcing (ITO) is used widely by Multinational Companies (MNCs) as a sourcing strategy today. ITO relationship between service buyer and provider then becomes a crucial issue in achieving expected objectives. This research sheds light on the influence of organizational culture (OC) of the buyer company on its ITO relationship with the provider. More specifically, the influence that OC can have on four significant dimensions of trust, cooperation, communication and commitment in ITO is studied through a qualitative analysis. IT managers of six MNCs were interviewed which exposed the connection between OC and ITO relationship factors. An open communication culture, speed of adaption to change, receiving innovative solutions, flat or hierarchical structures and responsibility degree appeared as the most visible differences between OCs of MNCs influencing ITO relationships. The results can be used for improving the ITO by considering the influence of OC to gain more benefits from outsourcing.
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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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Facing The Digitalization Challenge : Why Organizational Culture Matters and How It Influences IT Governance Performance
- 2017
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In: Information Systems Development: Advances in Methods, Tools and Management. - : Association for Information Systems. - 9789963228836
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Today it is not possible for the companies to compete without having IT as a strategic driver. That is why IT governance becomes crucial for managers to bring the most value from IT to the business. Additionally organizational culture is an important factor and often blamed when IT governance projects fail. However little in-depth research investigated how the organizational culture changes can improve the IT governance performance. This research is a case study of the IT department of a large company attempting to improve the IT governance while facing the digitalization challenge. In this case the IT department has an organizational culture change journey seeking to improve the IT governance performance. The results indicate that the initial clan culture orientation of the IT department has led to a successful IT governance performance in cost-effective use of IT. Furthermore, adhocracy is identified as preferred culture for improving IT governance for growth.
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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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How Does the Organizational Culture of Collaborative Networks Influence IT Governance Performance in a Large Organization?
- 2018
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In: Proceedings of the 51st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. - 9780998133119 ; , s. 4941-4951
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In today's complex organizations, IT governance is an important managerial challenge. IT governance deals with decisions and responsibilities concerning IT. There are many factors influencing IT governance. One factor that has remained relatively unexplored by academic research is that of organizational culture. This research explores the influence of the organizational culture of collaborative networks on IT governance performance. A case study was conducted in a large complex company with several networks. The findings indicated that the networks desire different organizational culture types based on their priorities for IT governance outcomes. A clan organizational culture is desired when aiming for effective use of IT for asset utilization and cost effective use of IT. An adhocracy culture is desired when prioritizing the effective use of IT for business growth. Finally a combination of market and hierarchy organizational culture is desired when seeking effective use of IT for business flexibility and cost cutting.
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- Aasi, Parisa, 1986-
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Information Technology Governance: The Role of Organizational Culture and Structure
- 2018
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Information Technology Governance (ITG) is among the most important challenges for the managers today. IT is not anymore just a supportive tool but also a strategic driver for the businesses. In the dynamic and competitive world of today, it is crucial for organizations to know how to govern IT rather than just to use it. IT governance deals with specifying responsibilities and decision rights to encourage the desirable behaviour from IT and generate value from IT investments. IT governance can impact the overall performance of organizations, however there are still difficulties in understanding IT governance and the factors that may influence it.Organizational culture and structure are among the factors that have significant influence on many issues in an organization. According to previous research, organizational culture and structure need to be considered when implementing IT governance. However, there is a lack of research focusing on how organizational culture and structure can influence IT governance performance and implementation. Thus, the main research question addressed in this thesis is: How are organizational culture and structure related to IT governance? To address this question, this research has performed literature reviews and conducted case studies to investigate the role of organizational culture and structure on IT governance. As the first step, the previous literature was reviewed to find the gaps in the research on culture and IT governance. As the next step, four case studies were conducted to explore the influence of organizational culture and structure on IT governance. Two case studies have investigated the relation between organizational structure and IT governance implementation and performance in large organizations; and two other case studies investigated on how different types of organizational culture influence IT governance performance outcomes.The results of this research respond to the research question by specifying the role of culture in IT governance through a categorization of prior research both from research and practice perspectives; specifying the influence of different organizational culture types on IT governance performance outcomes in different organizations; and by specifying IT organizational structure relationship with IT governance performance outcomes and IT governance implementation.The research presented in this thesis provides both theoretical and empirical contributions to the IT governance research and practice.
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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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IT Organizational Structure Relationship with IT Governance Performance : Case of a Public Organization
- 2017
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In: Information Technology Governance in Public Organizations. - Cham, Switzerland : Springer. - 9783319589770 - 9783319589787 ; , s. 229-252
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Information Technology (IT) is widely used in organizations and managers continue to struggle with how to govern IT. IT governance concerns the decision rights and division of responsibilities to achieve value from IT investments. Any IT governance approach is incorporated into a given organizational structure. However in the particular context of public organizations, there is little research on IT organizational structure relationship with IT governance performance. In this research, a case study is done in a public organization to find out how suitable is the organizational structure of the IT department is in relation with the IT governance performance. The results reveal that the IT department organizational structure needs to suit the IT governance performance desired outcomes. In this case, operating as a public organization has actuated the organization to focus on IT governance outcome of effective use of IT for growth. This together with the IT governance archetypes of this public organization for different IT decisions led the IT department leaders to adopt a matrix organizational structure.
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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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The impact of different organizational cultures on IT outsourcing relationship management
- 2013
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In: International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy. - : IGI Global. - 1947-8305 .- 1947-8313. ; 4:2, s. 50-66
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Globalization has affected the organizations in many aspects such as structure, architecture, internal/external strategies and sourcing management. Outsourcing is one of the recent business strategies used to provide IT needs via external agents. The relationship between the service buyer and provider companies is a constituent playing a significant role in IT outsourcing success or failure. This research has a focus on the influence of organizational culture of buyer companies on the specific factors of trust, cooperation, communication and commitment in their relationship with the IT service provider. Two explorative case studies are done in global companies using ITO which revealed the presence of organizational culture effect. Particularly, being innovative, having open discussion as an organizational culture and looking for extending contracts with providers as a strategy, appeared as the major difference between the two cases organizational culture; which influences the studied factors of ITO relationship in this research.
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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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The Influence of Cloud Computing on IT Governance in a Swedish Municipality
- 2020
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In: Information Systems. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030633950 - 9783030633967 ; , s. 623-639
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Cloud computing is used to a greater extent in today’s organizations and enables organizations to obtain on-demand network access to IT services. When cloud computing is adopted in an organization, the IT governance becomes more challenging, because organizations need to address business and IT-related processes as well as managing risks and maintaining the relationship with cloud computing vendors. This research aims at finding how cloud computing service model specifically Software as a Service (SaaS) influence IT governance structures, processes and relational mechanisms in a public organization. For this purpose a case study was conducted in a Swedish municipality and the data was collected through interviews with IT managers and from internal documents of municipality and was analyzed using thematic analysis. The results of this study shows that SaaS influences the IT governance structure by improving roles and responsibilities definition and speeds up the decision-making processes. Moreover, the communication with the vendors is more efficient due to the use of SaaS.
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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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The Influence of Culture on IT Governance : A Literature Review
- 2014
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In: 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). - : IEEE Computer Society. ; , s. 4436-4445
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- IT governance is crucial for managers to regulate the decision rights and responsibilities that the desired IT behaviors and business objectives are aligned with each other. Additionally, culture in national, organizational or group level can play a role in IT governance and this role is rarely explored in academic research. This paper provides a literature review investigating the impact of culture on IT governance. It is aimed to find the linkage between these two concepts and to promote this area for future research. The literature review was done systematically and the findings are categorized by using an IT governance framework which includes three main components: structures, processes and relational mechanisms. The results indicate there is an influence from national and organizational culture on IT governance, especially on relational mechanisms. However, the number of studies is very few and there is still a lack of knowledge on how culture can influence IT governance.
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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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The Influence of Organizational Culture on IT Governance Performance : Case of The IT Department in a Large Swedish Company
- 2016
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In: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. - : IEEE Computer Society. - 9780769556703 ; , s. 5157-5166
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- IT governance is one of the top concerns of organizations today seeking to gain value from their IT investments and create competitive advantage. Organizational culture on the other hand is one of the various factors influencing IT governance performance. However there is not much research conducted to understand this topic deeply. This research thus, is exploring the influence of organizational culture on four IT governance performance outcomes through a case study in IT department of a large Swedish company. The results provide evidence that organizational culture is influencing IT governance performance. Specifically the current clan culture orientation of the IT department has led to a successful IT governance performance in cost-effective use of IT. Furthermore adhocracy as the preferred culture is identified to influence IT governance in effective use of IT for growth which is not so successful with the current clan culture.
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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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The Role of Culture in IT Governance
- 2014
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In: Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2014). - : AIS eLibrary.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)
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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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The Role of Culture in IT Governance Five Focus Areas : A Literature Review
- 2017
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In: International Journal of IT - Business Alignment and Governance. - 1947-9611 .- 1947-962X. ; 8:2, s. 42-61
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Information technology governance (ITG) is one of the top challenges of managers today and culture in different level can have an important role while implementing IT governance. This is a new and significant issue, which has not been investigated deeply. This paper sets out to provide a systematic review of the literature, focusing on the role of culture in IT governance. The literature review findings are categorized through the lens of IT governance's five focus areas which are IT strategic alignment, IT value delivery, Risk management, IT resource management and Performance measurement. This study contributes to the field of IT governance by reviewing and discussing the existing literature on the role of culture on IT governance. This literature review resulted that there are few research studies in this topic and many of the IT governance focus areas are not covered regarding the role of culture in these IT governance areas.
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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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The Role of Culture in IT Governance Five Focus Areas : A Literature Review
- 2020
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In: Start-Ups and SMEs. - : IGI Global. - 9781799817604 - 9781799817611 ; , s. 1664-1687
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Information technology governance (ITG) is one of the top challenges of managers today and culture in different level can have an important role while implementing IT governance. This is a new and significant issue, which has not been investigated deeply. This paper sets out to provide a systematic review of the literature, focusing on the role of culture in IT governance. The literature review findings are categorized through the lens of IT governance’s five focus areas which are IT strategic alignment, IT value delivery, Risk management, IT resource management and Performance measurement. This study contributes to the field of IT governance by reviewing and discussing the existing literature on the role of culture on IT governance. This literature review resulted that there are few research studies in this topic and many of the IT governance focus areas are not covered regarding the role of culture in these IT governance areas.
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- Aasi, Parisa, et al.
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What is the role of organizational culture in IT governance performance of collaborative virtual networks?
- 2018
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In: International Journal of IT - Business Alignment and Governance. - 1947-9611 .- 1947-962X. ; 9:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In today's complex organizations, IT governance is an important managerial challenge. IT governance deals with decisions and responsibilities concerning IT. There are many factors influencing IT governance. One factor that has remained relatively unexplored by academic research is that of organizational culture. This research explores the influence of the organizational culture of collaborative networks on IT governance performance. A case study was conducted in a large complex company with several networks. The findings indicated that the networks fit better with different organizational culture types based on their priorities for IT governance outcomes to maximize performance. A clan organizational culture is desired when aiming for effective use of IT for asset utilization and cost-effective use of IT. An adhocracy culture fits better when prioritizing the effective use of IT for business growth. Finally, a combination of market and hierarchy organizational culture is desired and fits better when seeking effective use of IT for business flexibility and cost cutting.
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- Aasi, Seyedeh Parisa, et al.
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Digital Transformation Success Through Aligning the Organizational Structure: Case Study of Swedish Public Organizations
- 2022
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In: AMCIS 2022 Proceedings. - : Association for Information Systems (AIS). - 9781958200001
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A Digital Transformation fundamentally involves the implementation of one or more digital tools, which is a process often burdened with challenges. It is estimated that approximately 66 to 84 percent of the taken Digital Transformation initiatives are unsuccessful, which can be attributed to organizational shortcomings, more specifically structural ones. While public organizations regularly do not achieve the same success as those in the private sector, it was of interest to investigate the Swedish ones. Where 86 percent of residents use the internet to interact with public authorities. Previous research has singled out the IT organization to be the appointed leader of Digital Transformations, further research on that relationship is limited. Therefore, this study examines how the IT organization, in an agile environment, can align its structure for a successful Digital Transformation. To answer the discovered research problem, the following research question has been formulated: “How should an IT organization’s structure be aligned in an agile environment in order to achieve a successful Digital Transformation?”. This is research in progress and will be continued by conducting case studies in four public organizations. Data will be collected through semi0structured interviews and analyzed thematically. Finally, a presentation of different aspect of organizational structure alignment through digital transformation based on these cases will be provided.
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- Aasi, Seyedeh Parisa, et al.
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Organizational Aspects in Achieving a Successful Digital Transformation : Case of an ERP System Change
- 2022
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In: Information Systems. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030959463 - 9783030959470 ; , s. 653-666
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Digital transformation has been an interesting concept from the organizational perspective for a long time. The benefits of a successful digital transformation can take your organization into the next step by providing an increased organizational growth, aid market reachability by penetrating new and exciting markets, or enable your business operations to function to a greater extent than before with higher efficiency and lower lead times. Digital transformation is however a complex and diverse concept that means to integrate new innovations by using digital technology into the organization with the need of making greater organizational changes to succeed. This research, has explored how different organizational aspects like structural, technological and cultural ones can impact the success of a digital transformation during an ERP system change. A case study has been conducted in a company to identify how the current structural, technological, and cultural aspects influence the current digital transformation in that the company. The data was collected through interviews with employees having managerial roles and from internal documents of company and was analyzed using thematic analysis. The results show an agile approach, a more decentralized structure and high readiness for change, along with a transparent communication between management and co-workers to be beneficial for a successfully digital transformation.
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- Adetona, Temitayo Eniola, et al.
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Matching Information Security Management with Organisational Agility
- 2024
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In: AMCIS 2024 Proceedings. - : Association for Information Systems (AIS).
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Today's organisations are expected to embrace organisational agility—the ability not only to foresee opportunities and risks but also to swiftly respond appropriately. To this end, the significance of emerging information technologies (IT) in enabling organisational agility is recognised. Thus, maintaining the security of IT and related resources (i.e., information security management) has become critical for modern organisations. However, the relationship between organisational agility and information security management has not attracted sufficient attention among researchers. To address the gap in the literature, this case study explores information security challenges organisations face, as well as IT security management practices while maintaining organisational agility. The thematic analysis of the study conducted in Nigeria, based on interviews with information security experts, revealed eighteen measures that can be used to manage information security without compromising organisational agility. We argue that the measures identified will be invaluable for organisations, particularly in the finance sector.
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- Han, Shengnan, et al.
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BENEFITS OF MOBILE REPORTING SYSTEMS IN SOCIAL HOME CARE : THE CASE OF SEVEN SWEDISH MUNICIPALITIES
- 2014
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In: International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. - 0266-4623 .- 1471-6348. ; 30:4, s. 409-415
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Objectives: Mobile systems are widely adopted in healthcare services. Mobile reporting systems have been recently introduced for social home care by municipalities in Sweden. The study aims to assess the benefits of using these systems. Methods: We followed an expert survey approach. Data were collected by means of telephone interviews with the experts in charge of managing and implementing the systems at the municipalities. In addition, several workshops were organized for assessing the economic value of the systems at one municipality. We performed thematic analysis and cost-benefit analysis of the data. Results: The thematic analysis showed the three main benefits of using the mobile reporting systems in social home care: municipal benefits, care providers’ benefits, and care recipients’ benefits. The cost-benefit analysis indicated that the systems could bring substantial long-term economic value for municipalities. The results also revealed the difficulties encountered at the early stage of the deployment and implementation of the systems. Conclusions: The mobile systems yield benefits for all the actors, that is, municipalities, care recipients and care providers. These enhance the public-private coordination and cooperation in social home care in Sweden. The municipalities are called upon to address change management and technical challenges in the implementation.
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- Larsson, Fredrik, et al.
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Organizational Structure in IT Governance : A Case Study of an IT Governance Implementation Project
- 2015
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In: AMCIS 2015 Proceedings. - : Association for Information Systems. - 9780996683104
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The organizations today need to apply proper IT governance for beneficial IT investments.. This research focuses on how the organization structure should be done through the IT governance mechanisms application. A case study is done in a large Swedish constructing company using the ISO/IEC 38500:2008 IT governance standard. Several IT governance practices related to the ISO/IEC 38500:2008 standard were identified which were mostly related to “Responsibility”, “Strategy” and “Performance” compared to “Conformance” and “Acquisition” principals. The results reveal the importance of the way that the company has chosen to structure its organization around the IT project in their IT Governance mechanism. This is closely linked to the principle of “Responsibility”. Practically the standard can be used in future IT projects and the practices found in this study can be beneficial for analyzing and achieving an effective IT Governance implementation.
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