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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"strategic IT"”.
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Information technology decision making in South Africa : a framework for company-wide strategic IT management
… the linking of a company's business strategies with its strategic planning for IT (information technology). The objectives of the Study are: to investigate how the IT planning environment is changing for business enterprises in South Africa; to establish how successfully South African companies …
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Information technology planning framework for Japanese general contractors
New information technology (IT) developments continue to have a significant impact on the Architectural/Engineering/Construction (A/E/C) industry. However, the issue of whether A/E/C organizations are receiving adequate returns from their IT investments remains an important managerial concern. …
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Framework for strategic system planning for facilities management in the health sector
Facilities Management (FM) is commonly defined as managing physicalworkplace and property, which have a direct link with design and constructionactivities in one aspect, and managing services and performance of resourcesin the organisation as another. Aspects of FM are inter-related and …
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An investment analysis model using fuzzy set theory
Traditional methods for evaluating investments in state-of-the-art technology are sometimes found lacking in providing equitable recommendations for project selection. The major cause for this is the inability of these methods to handle adequately uncertainty and imprecision, and account for every …
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IT portfolio attributes and investment choices
… face the challenge of finding the appropriate IT resource allocation to meet enterprise strategic goals across multi-organizational units. To address this problem, my dissertation opens the black box of enterprise strategic IT resource allocation by examining the prioritization and selection of …
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An Investigation into Considerations for the Design of IS to Improve the Utility of the Use of the Co-alignment Model: An Integration of Strategy and IT as A Coordination Strategy Framework - A Case Study of Virginia Beach
As competition has changed and made the environment more dynamic and complex for the hospitality and tourism industry, the concept of strategic management has become more important. However, under the force driving change of technology innovation, information has gone digital and electronic for …
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A dove song : the "miraculous" foundation and growth of Bobbio Abbey
Legend has it that an ancient Irish monk known by the name of Columbanus, literally meaning ‘little dove’, morphed into a swan when he achieved his final ambition by founding Bobbio Abbey just a year before he died. The Abbey prospered in an exceptionally short period of time and outlasted him by …
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A critical systems thinking approach for the planning of information technology in the information society
This thesis presents a view of the situation of Information and Communications Technology Planning (ICTP) from the perspective of Critical Systems Thinking (CST). Nowadays with the increasing use of information and communications technologies and the possibilities of management of information, …
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The Perception of CEOs and CIOs in Regard to Planning and Information Systems Success in Higher Education in the Southeastern United States
… and operation become paramount and strategic. It appears that information systems have not been utilized in a paramount or strategic fashion by education, especially in organizations of higher education.</p> <p>The intent of this research was to identify the perceptions of the …
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A strategic approach for IT use in the Egyptian banking industry
… in this project. Information Technology (IT) use in the Less Developed Countries (LDCs), has drawn some research attention in the last decade. However, few studies have examined the organisational issues of IT use in these countries. The aim of this study was to identify the organisational …
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Enterprise architecture driven design of an artefact to support strategic Information Technology decision-making of Small Enterprises in Nigeria and South Africa
Information Technology (IT) is inevitably influencing the way enterprises operate, compete, and grow. The contemporary disruption has not excluded small companies. Small enterprises play a significant role in the growth of every economy but are hindered by limited skills, time, and money. The …