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IT & Organizational Performance: An Integrative Model of Business Value. Miniproject#2 MOIS 433 Presented by Sara Maamoun Presented to Dr. Dina Rateb. About Review. Authors: Nigel Melville Kenneth Kraemer Vijay Gurbaxani Journal: Vol.28 No.2/ June 2004. I. Introduction.
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IT & Organizational Performance: An Integrative Model of Business Value Miniproject#2 MOIS 433 Presented by Sara Maamoun Presented to Dr. Dina Rateb
About Review • Authors: • Nigel Melville • Kenneth Kraemer • Vijay Gurbaxani • Journal: • Vol.28 No.2/ June 2004
Topic Overview • IT Business Value • Impacts of IT on organizational performance • Knowledge Perspectives & Computing Paradigms • Pre-Internet Era • Mainframes, minicomputers • Used for storing and processing information within one organization • Network Era • Electronic linkages • Within & among multiple organizations
Objectives of Review • Develop a model of IT business value based in theory and informed by existing IT business value research • Use the model to synthesize & unify what is known about IT value • Guide future research by developing propositions and putting forward a research agenda
Conceptualizing Information Technology • Tool View: IT viewed as an engineered tool doing what its designers intended • Proxy View: Conceptualized by its essential characteristics, which are defined by • Individual perception of its usefulness or value • Its investment or capital stock denominated in financial units • Ensemble View: Interaction of people and technology in both the development and use of IT
Defining IT Business Value Research • IT Business Value refers to the organizational performance impacts of IT including • Productivity enhancement • Cost reduction • Competitive advantage • Inventory reduction and other measures of performance • Formulations of performance • Efficiency • Effectiveness
Theoretical Paradigms Used in IT Business Value Research • Microeconomic Theory • Industrial Organization Theory • Sociology & Socio-Political Perspectives
Chosen Theory base: Resource-Based View of the Firm • RBV & IT Business Value • Prior Models • IT impacts orgnl. performance via intermediate business processes • Other orgnl. resources such as workplace practices interact with IT, whether as mediator or moderator, in the attainment if orgnl. performance impacts. • External environment plays a role in IT business value generation • It is important to disaggregate the IT construct into meaningful subcomponents
Sources • “IT & Organizational Performance: An Integrative Model of Business Value.” MIS Quarterly. PDF: http://web.gsm.uci.edu/~gurbaxan/itbv.pdf • “The IT Value Model: Winning the Business “Battle” with the right IT “Nails””. IBM Global Services. PDF: • http://www-1.ibm.com/services/us/its/pdf/g510-3887-00.pdf