A paper named “Assessing the Risk Exposure in IT Outsourcing for Large Companies“ and written together with Georg Hodosi has been published in International Journal of Information Technology and Management, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 24-44, 2011. The paper is presenting the design of an information technology outsourcing (ITO) tool that includes a procedure based on transaction cost theory for assessing the risk exposure in ITO. The ITO tool presented in this paper is a useful and effective instrument for the IT decision-makers in support of decisions to outsource IT or not. In the development of the ITO tool, we have approached two large companies in Sweden with more than 20 years experiences in ITO that have helped us in the improvement and evaluation of the usability and effectiveness of this tool. For more information about this paper please access the following link: http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=record&rec_id=37760&prevQuery=&ps=10&m=or
Special Issue of JITTA
DSV Center for Service Science and Innovation (SSI) is pleased to invite your research paper submissions for a special issue on “Information Technology Global Services and Sourcing” in the Journal of Information Technology: Theory and Applications, an AIS Journal.
Key Milestones for the Special Issue:
- March 15, 2011: Submission Deadline
- April 15, 2011: First round of reviews and decisions sent to authors
- June 7-8, 2011: Development Workshop at Stockholm University for authors invited to revise; authors are expected to bring a revised version based on first round of reviews
- June 20, 2011: Submission deadline for second round submission
- August 1, 2011: Decisions on second round of review sent to authors
- October 1, 2011: Camera ready papers due
The workshop dates are conveniently set for those interested in attending
ECIS from June 8-9.
Please find more information about the call here: CFP-JITTA.
For further inquiries, please contact gjs@dsv.su.se.
Value Modeling in Healthcare
Erik Perjons and I have written an article on value modeling in healthcare, which was published in Healthcare IT Management, which is the official journal of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers. The journal has a wide audience and is distributed in about 30,000 copies.
Abstract
Politicians, health care managers, and systems designers need new instruments for managing the complexity of today’s health care systems. One of the most promising instruments is a recent enterprise modelling technique called value models. A value model is a graphical representation of a network of cooperating actors that together create value through resource exchanges and transformations. Value models have their origin in commercial contexts, where they have been used for analysing the economic viability of networks and their participants. Value models can be extended to cater for the special requirements of health care networks, thereby facilitating the design of new forms of collaboration in healthcare as well as innovative health care services.