Following Kodak's landmark information technology (IT) outsourcing decisions in 1989, the IT market grew to 76 billion dollars 1995. As continues grow and as new contracting options emerge, accumulated experiences of firms offer significant opportunities for learning. This paper builds on a previous collection data 61 sourcing made 40 U.S. U.K. organizations during period 1991 reanalyzed transcribed interviews from 145 participants. Using expected cost savings achieved an indicator success,...

Developments in digitisation, software and processing power the accompanying data explosion create significant alterations, dilemmas possibilities for enterprises their finance function. The article discusses a model understanding data, information knowledge relationships. We apply to examine developments strategy, organisational cost structures, business analytics, outsourcing, offshoring cloud computing. argue that organisations need be sensitised different types of knowledge, challenges...

Critical realism offers exciting prospects in shifting attention toward the real problems that one faces and their underlying causes. As such, it a robust framework for use of variety methods order to gain better understanding meaning significance information systems contemporary world. One interesting tensions is Archer's argument centrality reflexivity conditions tends downplay both routine action tacit forms knowing, whereas considerable volume work on organizations IS stresses both. A...

Robotics and the automation of knowledge work, often referred to as AI (artificial intelligence), are presented in media likely have massive impacts, for better or worse, on jobs skills, organizations society. The article deconstructs dominant hype-and-fear narrative. Claims net job loss emerge exaggerated, but there will be considerable skills disruption change major global economies over next 12 years. term has been hijacked, order suggest much more going technologically than can case....

Large international corporations commonly engage in IT outsourcing. However, the process of evaluating, selecting, and subsequently contracting out or selling organization's assets, people, and/or activities to a third-party supplier creates possibility Winner's Curse. This occurs when over-promises on what can be delivered for contract price. article presents longitudinal outsourcing case study that explicates often abstruse Curse, its effect post-contract management relationship, how it...

article Free AccessEnterprise resource planning: the role of CIO and it function in ERP Authors: Leslie P. Willcocks Oxford Univ., Oxford, UK UKView Profile , Richard Sykes Morgan Chambers ChambersView Authors Info & Claims Communications ACMVolume 43Issue 4April 2000 pp 32–38https://doi.org/10.1145/332051.332065Published:01 April 2000Publication History 197citation8,748DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations197Total Downloads8,748Last 12 Months334Last 6 weeks83 Get Citation AlertsNew Alert...

Abstract Drawing from the firsthand experiences of senior executives and IT managers in US British companies, this article summarizes expectations they had for outsourcing explains what went wrong—and why—when were not met. Successful are then used to outline a prescription ensuring that expected benefits fully realized.

At the Journal of Information Technology (JIT), we print an editorial only for special issues and occasions.This issue sees completion our 25th full volume as such are treating it cause celebration -hence silver anniversary cover.It is all too obvious that world information technology (IT), has been transformed since 1986.Indeed, then was hardly pervasive -personal computers were in their infancy.While there many predictions, nobody could say with confidence how its use organisations society...