This research addresses how worker interdependence combined with individual performances affect management’s decision on how to modularize an organizational team that is evolving over time through replacements. A mathematical model is developed for determining how individual and team performances change when a team is split. Through computer simulations, managerial insights are provided on thre...

IT Governance (ITG) adoption remains a relevant topic of study. While extensive research has been done looking into the drivers and critical success factors of ITG practice, there seems to be a lack of interest in identifying the barriers to its adoption. This study reports on a survey conducted to first: provide some primary data that suggest ITG adoption and maturity levels are still low, esp...

Despite the need for sustaining competitive advantage, scholars and practitioners struggle when deciding which organizational capabilities they should develop to which extent. Today, inconsistent recommendations bear the risk of misallocating corporate funds. Despite recent advances, further research needs to be conducted with respect to how uncertainty can be considered in capability developme...

The purpose of this study was to determine the affect that contextual factors such as IS maturity of the organization, organizational factors, and environmental characteristics have on perceived usefulness and adoption of web-based services for transaction processing in organizations. To achieve the purpose of the study a research model and 10 hypotheses were developed based on past literature ...

E-mail is the most important electronic communication medium for governments with their constituents. While there are a lot of maturity models and benchmarking studies focusing on the technological and organizational integration of information technology in governments, the “customer side” of e-government maturity has been often neglected. Replicating studies from Australia, New Zealand, Sloven...

Data Warehouses and Business Intelligence have been part of a very dynamic andpopular field of research in the last years as they help organizations in making better decisions andincreasing their profitability. This paper aims at creating a Data Warehouse Capability MaturityModel (DWCMM) focused on the technical and organizational aspects involved in developing adata warehouse e...

Evaluating readiness of individual public agencies to execute specific e-Government programs and directives is a key ingredient for wider eGovernment deployment and success. This article describes how the eGov-MM model was used to over 30 many Chilean public agencies and to identify specific areas in which each of them should focus improvement efforts. eGovMM is a capability maturity model, pat...

The implementation of fully-fledged eGovernment-for-citizens (eG4C) initiatives by public sector organization (PSO) seems to be a challenging task especially for developing countries. For instance in South Africa, there is no or limited fully-fledged eGovernment portal which provides integrated services for citizens. Researchers have published extensive research work on eGovernment maturity mod...

Based on interviews with a number of architects and managers from a wide range of organizations, we characterize how EA is perceived and applied in practice. The key aspects of how EA is perceived in practice are that EA is: a means of abstraction, a means of communication, and a governance instrument. The key critical success factors for applying EA in practice are: the acceptance of EA driven...