News and Events
On December 9, 2011 our colleague Anayanci Lopez Poveda has defended successfully her Licentiate Thesis named: “Towards a framework for analyzing IT strategy management in public sector”. On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate Anayanci for her achievement. Some pictures from the seminar and after the seminar are included below.
Here is a call for papers to the 3rd Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, in conjunction with the 35th IRIS seminar, August 17–20, 2012, Sigtuna, Sweden. For more information about this conference please access the following link: http://iris.im.uu.se/
The paper named “Critical Success Factors Framework for Implementing Effective IT Governance in Public Sector Organizations in a Developing Country”, written by Edephonce Nfuka and Lazar Rusu was nominated among other 10 papers for the “best paper” award at the Americas Conference of Information Systems (AMCIS 2011) held in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The paper was nominated out of 400 papers accepted for presentation and publication in the conference proceedings. The Americas Conference of Information Systems is among the 31 conferences in Information Systems area that is ranked “A” out of 244 (68-B and 145-C) according to Australian Research Council: http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/?page=cfordet10&selfor=0806
For more information about our paper published in the AIS Electronic Library please access the following link: http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2011_submissions/365/
On June 8, 2011 I have attended the CIO symposium from European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS 2011) held in Helsinki. The symposium was a great opportunity for me to participate at an interesting debate between leading academics, IT executives and also the participants regarding the most important IT issues and trends. For more information about the presentations from this symposium please access the following link: http://www.ecis2011.fi/cio-symposium/
A paper named “The effect of critical success factors on IT governance performance” written by Edephonce Nfuka and Lazar Rusu has been accepted for publication in the Industrial Management & Data Systems (IMDS) journal (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=imds). The Industrial Management & Data Systems journal is published by Emerald, has an acceptance rate of 10-12% and is ranked by Thomson Reuters having the ISI Impact Factor 1.535.
In this year I have submitted an application for Ph.D. funding to Swedish Research School of Management and Information Technology (MIT). The application has been successfully and in the next five years I will receive 1500000 SEK from MIT for financing together with our department a Ph.D. position in IT Management. For more information about Swedish Research School of Management and Information Technology (MIT) please access the following link: http://www.forskarskolan-mit.nu/
The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2011) that in this year will be held in Detroit, USA from 4-7 August, 2011 (http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/) is a top ranked conference in Information Systems area according to The Australian Government’s Excellence in Research project (ERA): http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/?page=cfordet10&selfor=0806
In this year three papers written by the members of IT Management group were accepted for publication (two as papers and one as poster) in the proceedings of AMCIS 2011. The authors of the papers, the title and the abstract are included below.
The first paper is written by Edephonce Nfuka and Lazar Rusu, and is entitled: “Critical Success Factors Framework for Implementing Effective IT Governance in Public Sector Organizations in a Developing Country”.
Abstract
Several frameworks for IT governance exist with various approaches like for example COBIT or ITIL. However neither of these frameworks has looked on implementing an effective IT governance from the point of view of Critical Success Factors (CSFs). Therefore in this paper, we have specifically addressed this gap by developing a framework of CSFs for implementing effective IT governance (CEITG) in public sector organizations in a developing country like Tanzania. This was achieved using four previous studies in this environment as a basis, together with interviews with 43 IT and business people from 25 public sector organizations, 6 industry/academic experts and finally through a case study in an organization in this environment during CEITG development and evaluation. The results of this research is a high level and holistic view framework based on CSFs and the activities in each IT governance focus area that should be considered by IT and business management personnel in the process of implementing effective IT governance in public sector organizations in Tanzania.
The second paper is written by Anayanci Lopez, Lazar Rusu and Paul Johannesson, and is entitled ”Construction of a Maturity Model for Analyzing Strategic IT Service Management”.
Abstract
The paper presents the construction of a maturity model for analyzing the strategic IT service management (ITSM) process of internal IT service provider’s in early growth stages. This model is presented as an alternative tool for improving the understanding, from an IT service management perspective, of: (i) the strategic IT processes/practices in an IT organization, and (ii) facilitates the improvement task of such IT organization. The model construction is done by using a combination of best practices of IT service management and IT governance together with characteristics specific to the object under analysis, e.g. internal IT service providers, municipal governments standards. The model uses a wider scope for strategic ITSM which facilitates its applicability in IT organizations in early growth stages, giving a practical value to the model. Furthermore this model is designed to be used independently or as a complementary component of a method for analyzing IT service strategy presented in a previous study.
The third paper is written by Georg Hodosi and Lazar Rusu, and is entitled “A Risk Based View of Influential Factors in IT Outsourcing Relationship for Large Swedish Companies”.
Abstract
Today IT Outsourcing (ITO) is well spread among the large Swedish companies and this trend will continue in the near years. Our focus in this research is a service buyer company who needs a well working relation with its ITO supplier for fixing: emergent issues, daily operation and changes that have not been foreseen. In the last years, an increasing attention has been paid to improving ITO relationship. In the review of the research literature we have not found any studies about Influential Factors (IFs) that could improve ITO relationship in large Swedish companies, nor about how risks factors are interrelated to the ITO relationship. Therefore this research has addressed this problem by providing the IFs that could improve ITO relationship in large Swedish companies and could help the service buyers companies’ to focus on these IFs. Additionally, we have developed a framework that could support the ITO decision makers in both mitigating the risks and the improvement of the ITO relationship.
On March 22, 2011 the IT Management group has discussed their research work with Professor Jerry Luftman. In the meeting we had a fruitful discussion about how should we develop our research and also about possibilities to cooperate in the research area of Business-IT Alignment. Professor Jerry Luftman has shown to have an interest in our research work and has given us many good ideas to explore. A picture from this meeting with Professor Jerry Luftman you could find below.
