This paper describes parts of the results of a Nolan Norton Institute research project “Strategic Sourcing and Partnerships” executed with 20 international companies. We applied scenario planning to arrive at a number of plausible future scenarios for ICT sourcing and partnerships for the year 2003 / 2005.The scenarios elaborate on issues such as: (1) What are the key environmental and business...

Multivariate Tobit models estimated using German cross–sectional data are applied to test if strategic complementarities exist between expenditures in four different types of ICT–components. If two ICT–components are complements, they are correlated (provided that agents act rationally). My results are that significant correlations between all four types of ICT–expenditures indeed exist that ca...

organizational culture and managers' personal attitudes play a crucial role in conducting change initiatives, especially strategic change. in this regard, middle managers' commitment to change is of great importance and cynicism is the biggest obstacle in forming this commitment. in the present study, it is investigated whether organizational justice dimensions, senior management supp...

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are being increasingly used by the governments to deliver its services to both rural and urban people. Obviously, access and application of ICT will provide services to improve the income and welfare of rural poor. This will help reducing rural poverty and improve quality of life. In Iran, importance of using rural ICT benefits and advantage...

This paper presents the results of a study investigating the factors affecting information and communication technology (ICT) adoption in the supply chain of facilities management in Denmark. The study takes the starting point in the literature of supply chain management, facilities management and ICT adoption to conduct a qualitative study of factors impacting ICT adoption in the Danish facili...

Awareness of stakeholder interactions and sustainable development (SD) issues in the management of information and communication technologies (ICT), forces companies to adopt the concepts of Green IT and corporate social responsibility (CSR) to meet the challenges of agility and innovation, also to create differentiation in governance processes and strategic alignment of ICT. In this paper, we ...

The awareness of the Sustainable Development (SD) issues and stakeholder interactions in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) management, forces companies to adopt the concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Green IT to meet the challenges of innovation agility, and afterwards to create differentiation in the processes of governance and strategic alignment...

The focus of this study was to investigate the relationship between: (1) information communication technology (ICT) operational risk management (ORM) and (2) performance of small to medium enterprise (SME). To achieve the focus, the research investigated five specific research objectives that included the principal causes of ICT ORM failure in SME: change management requirements; characteristic...

In general, ICT projects towards development in developing countries are typically guided and designed at the macro level (national strategic), adopted at the meso level (organization), implemented at the micro level (individual/group/ community), and are exclusively dependent on the interests and funding from the international development agencies. Therefore, ICT4D research can be understood a...