1st Edition

Evaluating Information Systems

Edited By Zahir Irani, Peter Love Copyright 2008
384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

The adoption of Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) represents significant financial investments, with alternative perspectives to the evaluation domain coming from both the public and private sectors. As a result of increasing IT/IS budgets and their growing significance within the development of an organizational infrastructure, the evaluation and performance measurement of... Read more
Information systems evaluation: A crisis of understanding (Irani and Love);
Information technology and systems justification (Gunasekaran, Ngai and McGaughey);
Revisiting the content, context and process of IS evaluation (Stockdale, Standing, Love and Irani);
How IT evaluation methods are used: Examining case research from an ANT perspective (Nijland and Willcocks);
IT project evaluation: Why more formal evaluation is not necessarily better (Thomas, Seddon and Fernandez);
Don't mention the war: Managing disbenefits (Bannister);
Spot the difference: Evaluation of custom and package applications (Entwistle and Light);
Post-implementation evaluation of IT systems: A close review of practice (Al-Yaseen, Eldabi, Paul and El-Haddadeh);
Evaluation of information providers in support of fixed-income market (Montazemi, Esfahanipour and Siam);
Evaluating actors and factors associated with healthcare information systems (Mantzana, Themistocleous, Morabito and Soulioutis);
Evalutating the governance structure for public sector IT: The UK National Programme in the Health Service (Currie);
Strategic alignment and a culture innovation: Using the SPRINT methodology to meet two challenges of information age government (Kawalek and Wastell);
Social dimension of IT/IS evaluation: Views from the public sector (Jones);
Benchmarking e-Government: Improving the national and international measurement, evaluation and comparison of e-Government (Heeks);
Evaluating e-Government infrastructure through enterprise application integration (EAI) (Kamal, Themistocleous and Morabito);
t-Government for benefit realisation: A research agenda (Sahraoui, Ghoneim, Irani and Ozkan);

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Zahir Irani, Peter Love