Does good IT governance improve the effect of IT? This paper presents the IT Organization Modeling and Assessment Tool (ITOMAT) which has been created to overcome operationalization and subjectivity weaknesses in the Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) framework. ITOMAT was applied to assess IT governance maturity in four case studies. Simultaneously, external metr...

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has the potential to offer citizens new ways with which to engage in the process of democracy. It is not sufficient that communities and citizens have access to ICT for the digital divide to be bridged; such communities need to also become literate in the new technologies. Resources need to be made available that are useful, interesting and releva...

Nowadays there are more than thirty maturity models in different knowledge areas. Maturity model is an area of interest that contributes organizations to find out where they are in a specific knowledge area and how to improve it. As Information Resource Management (IRM) is the concept that information is a major corporate resource and must be managed using the same basic principles used to mana...

Maturity models have existed as a concept for almost two decades. While they were initially made prominent through computer software engineering, they have since spread to several disciplines including: business analytics, e-government, energy management, financial management, human resources management, the health sector, information technology management, and project management. Within the re...

Technology maturity assessment metrics have played a key role in complex system acquisition and technology integration in both the defense and commercial sector. Of these, the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Technology Readiness Level (TRL) has been the de facto standard since it’s inception in the late 1990s. DoD adopted the use of TRLs to provide program managers with critical informatio...

The issue of information technology (IT) investment evaluation in B2BEC (business-to-business electronic commerce) has generated a lot of interest and discussion among academics and researchers. This research was undertaken to investigate the relationships between the level of IT maturity, the use of IT investment evaluation (IEM) and benefits realization (BRM) methodologies, and the degree of ...

In evaluating the state of technology for extracting information from natural language text by machine, it i s valuable to compare the performance of machine extraction systems with that achieved by humans performing th e same task. The purpose of this paper is to present some results from a comparative study of human and machine performance for one of the information extraction tasks used in t...

Nowadays, many organizations face the issue of information and communication technology (ICT) management. The organization undertakes various activities to assess the state of their ICT or the entire information system (IS), such as IS audits, reviews, IS due diligence, or they already have implemented systems to gather information regarding their IS. For the organizations’ boards and managers ...

introduction: the healthcare sector is one of the areas affected by information technology (it). due to the importance of it in hospitals and factors affecting its use, the present study was conducted to investigate the human factors affecting the use of it among managers of university hospitals in shiraz, iran. methods: this applied and analytic study was conducted in 2014 in 7 university hosp...

this research aimed at evaluating the students’ information literacy and its relation with their tendency to e-learning. the research method was descriptive (correlation) from the point of view of gathering data, and an applied one from the point of view of objective (goal). the statistical population included all 9335 humanity major students of islamic azad university of tehran central branch....