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The main problems of interaction between IT business and IT education for establishing the effective specialist training in this industry in Ukraine are analyzed. The key points, that are inherent in the educational field that prepares IT professionals and in the corporations that have successfully positioned in the IT market, are outlined.Show More
The paper examines the influence of the levels of IT education on the performance and IT usage in startup companies. A model of IT education levels related to utilisation in digital entrepreneurship was created, which includes four levels: 1) the level of understanding the role of IT in digital entrepreneurship, 2) the level of using basic applications and tools, 3) the level of independently appl...Show More
The development of Internet generated the wave of E-Commerce, which can lead an expansion of IT industry. This paper focuses on the relationship between of ownership motivation and corporate performance in IT companies because the showing of low occupational stability of managers in IT industry. With an empirical research through all 99 IT companies from Shanghai and Shenzhen stock market as the s...Show More

Surveying the risks and benefits of IT outsourcing

G.R. Djavanshir

IT Professional
Year: 2005 | Volume: 7, Issue: 6 | Magazine Article |
Cited by: Papers (18)
In this article a survey of senior IT managers points to political and legal issues as the top risk concerns. These managers also say offshoring can create more jobs. Most companies consider offshore outsourcing as a way to reduce cost and increase efficiencies. Outsourcing can be a viable option for companies and can also help businesses and economies in the countries involved, as long as the out...Show More

Surveying the risks and benefits of IT outsourcing

G.R. Djavanshir

Year: 2005 | Volume: 7, Issue: 6 | Magazine Article |
Servitization is a time-consuming-, and needs to be persistent-, process at the companies, especially in the IT branch. Thus, a company must find itself properly, on which phase of this process it is operating in, to perform further accurate steps, to succeed in a short time with this development, since the competition in the IT industry is highly dynamic. Accordingly, we perform in this paper an ...Show More
This paper studies on marketing capabilities of IT listed company in China based on stochastic frontier method. Corporate marketing capability is defined as a transformative process that converts inputs into marketing-related outputs. Through empirical analysis, it founds that the marketing capabilities of IT Listed Company in China is very low. And there is a close correlation between marketing c...Show More
Utilization of Information Technology is increasingly high at this time requires the guarantee of any information processed by the system on a company. One of the benchmarks used is to measure the level of maturity of IT Governance. COBIT 5 becomes the main reference that is often used for these needs. But to do the assessment takes a long time because of the many processes assessed. This becomes ...Show More
Based on our previous work, this paper discusses IT utilization by long-established Japanese companies and its effects. According to our interviews to some managers of such companies, IT systems have been actively introduced and have shown positive effects. For example, multiple numbers of long-established Japanese-style confectionary companies in Kyoto such as Wakanaya and Fujikoma, a soba noodle...Show More
Optimal utilization of human resources contributes to achievement of the aims of IT department and also of the entire company. Organizational Structure of IT department should be designed on the base of IT Service Lifecycle. IT personnel should support the IT Services in all stages of their Lifecycles. The paper is focused on the method describing transformation of the organization structure of IT...Show More
High levels of investment in IT and related products and services over the last two decades have produced only mixed results. Research has shown that one of the most significant determinants of successful IT investment is the alignment between IT and the competitive strategies of a firm. Yet, it is largely unclear to both researchers and practitioners how to achieve such alignment in a complex bus...Show More
PT. Emobile Indonesia is an Information Technology company that manages services and supports several sectors of the business industry. This assessment is done because the governance in the company is still not integrated properly. This is indicated by the irregular role and description of tasks within the IT division, to slow down performance when sudden disruptions occur and lack of implementati...Show More
The importance of identifying and tackling different risks faced by Pakistani IT companies in the 21st century are much more diverse and varying then those that were faced 50 years ago. In this paper we perform a survey of the different kinds of risks faced by IT companies in Pakistan. The survey helps us to identify the faults of companies that lead them to encountering of these risks. We are fac...Show More
In IT industry, global software development (GSD) is becoming popular since the past few decades. GSD is the process whereby companies are doing development of software at different locations. GSD is adopted by the IT companies to get the advantages of multi-site development, reduce development cost and access large group of skilled labor. Despite the leverage benefits of GSD, several challenges a...Show More
Competition among financing companies is very tight. This makes the company trying to use and implement the latest technology to support their activities and attract consumers. Especially for software development. This is what makes IT project management, especially project management related to software development, becomes an important factor in a financing company. The purpose of this research ...Show More
The paper examines the features of IT-projects and their impact on the management decisions of outsourcing companies in their implementation, as well as demonstrates the necessity to apply simulation models of portfolio management of IT-projects. It introduces a system-dynamic model of IT-project with elements of the cognitive approach as a basis for model management of an outsourcing IT-company a...Show More
The article discusses the approach to the conduct and justification of the selection of the project management system and the utilization of labor resources using the method of comparative quantitative assessment of the quality of systems based on the functional completeness criterion to ensure the definition of a suitable system for supporting the activities of the IT company. The article determi...Show More
The research on relationship between IT capabilities and firm performance is hot. However, we found that many studies regard the IT capability as a whole ignoring the types of IT capabilities. Meantime they do not take into account the industry environment conditions that influence the relationship. First, we propose IT capability can be divided into IT capability of base, IT capability of applica...Show More
Companies are spending a large amount of money on Information Technology (IT) projects, with an objective to improve operational performance and gain competitive advantages. Despite such spending, many IT projects fail to meet their expectations either be finishing late, exceeding the allocated budget, or failing to deliver the project benefits. Many factors impact the success of an IT project. Th...Show More

Mum Effect as an Offshore Outsourcing Risk: A Study of Differences in Perceptions

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The Computer Journal
Year: 2010 | Volume: 53, Issue: 1 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (1)
Mum effect is the risk arising from project members’ reluctance to report negative information. We investigate the cultural factors contributing to this risk in offshore outsourcing. The study was conducted in Thailand with participation from both students and IT professionals. In order to understand the influence of the IT work environment on the risks, we used the student data as a control sampl...Show More

Mum Effect as an Offshore Outsourcing Risk: A Study of Differences in Perceptions

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Year: 2010 | Volume: 53, Issue: 1 | Journal Article |
The strategic benefits of computer based information systems have been well documented in the literature. In the same light, researchers have also unveiled various factors that promote strategic uses of computer based information systems. Among the identified factor is information technology infrastructure flexibility (ITIF). However, previous studies focusing on the contribution of information te...Show More
Quality is key for any organization to survive, compete and move forward in today's increasingly competitive business environment. Quality is determined by the product users, clients or customers, not by society in general. The aim is not to eliminate mistakes or defect completely, but to minimize the occurrence of defects/mistakes a company can manage and handle. A suitable and flexible quality i...Show More
The general goals of the political program of the digital decade until 2030 and the possibilities of their adaptation to the conditions of Ukraine are analyzed. Based on an analysis of global experience, the prospects for the development of IT education in Ukrainian universities have been identified. The object of the research was the activity of state and private universities in Ukraine. The worl...Show More
This research paper explores the factors of shared leadership in IT sector in India. A reliable and a valid scale for the measurement of shared leadership (Scale for Measuring Shared Leadership, S.M.S.L) is therefore developed as the previous researches brought to light the requirement of such scales which relate to the Indian IT sector. Attempt is made to reduce large number of variables, studied...Show More
Innovative development of the country depends on the creation and implementation of modern information technologies in all spheres of economy and public life. Competitiveness of the country is possible only if there are highly qualified and educated specialists who are able to develop and implement such technologies in different sectors of the economy. IT education plays a significant role in prov...Show More

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