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Building a New Information Technology Operating Model to Support Digital Transformation: A Case Study in Oil and Gas Sector
Multinational corporations are facing increasing demands on their IT function due to digital innovation and transformation. However, a traditional IT function often lacks capabilities required for successful d...
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Improving Communication and Collaboration in Enterprise Architecture Projects: Three Propositions from Three Public Sector EA Projects
Enterprise architecture (EA) is infamous for implementation problems and unredeemed promises. Imprecise and unstandardized EA work practices and various definitions make it difficult to comprehend what should ...
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Contextuality and Temporality of Enterprise Architecture Problems: A Comparative Case Study
Many enterprise architecture (EA) projects face severe challenges and risks and may even fail. Although the problems are well-known and identified in the literature, the projects keep struggling. It is thus re...
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Organizational Change and Enterprise Architecture Adoption: A Case Study in the Public Sector
Enterprise architecture (EA) adoption initiates broad changes in organizations and organizational functions. However, the existing literature on how and what factors influence the changes in EA adoption remain...
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Open AccessThe Benefits of Enterprise Architecture in Organizational Transformation
Today, as organizations constantly adjust their activities to meet ever-changing circumstances, continuous business transformation is taking place. However, planning and steering this transformation can be a d...
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Open AccessInstitutional Perspectives on the Process of Enterprise Architecture Adoption
Organizations often adopt enterprise architecture (EA) when planning how best to develop their information technology (IT) or businesses, for strategic management, or generally for managing change initiatives....
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Open AccessERP based business learning environment as a boundary infrastructure in business learning
Business education has been criticized for being theoretical and distant from the dynamisms of the business life. To answer to this criticism, different types of experiential learning environments, such as man...
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Representational Quality Challenges of Big Data: Insights from Comparative Case Studies
Big data is said to provide many benefits. However, as data originates from multiple sources with different quality, big data is not easy to use. Representational quality refers to the concise and consistent r...
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Problems of Enterprise Architecture Adoption in the Public Sector: Root Causes and Some Solutions
is a comprehensive approach aimed at understanding and aligning an organization’s business strategy and processes, information resources, and information technologies. However, implementing this approach in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
IS Acquisition Characteristics in the Public Sector
Public sector organizations aim to acquire the best possible information systems (IS) and, at the same time, comply with public procurement regulations [4]. Evidently, this task is not easy [5] as the success rat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Three Positives Make One Negative: Public Sector IS Procurement
The requirement specifications are centric in the IS acquisition process, also in public sector. In addition to the regulatory factors multiple stakeholders are often involved in the procurement process. Yet t...
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Riding for a Fall in Outsourced ISD: Knowledge Transfer Challenges Between the Onshore Vendor and the Offshored Unit
Contemporary information systems development (ISD) is often conducted in a multi-stakeholder network where parts of the development are offshored. This entails several risks and challenges as inter-organizatio...
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Understanding Enterprise Architecture: Perceptions by the Finnish Public Sector
Enterprise architectures (EA) support organizations in managing the complexity of their business environment and facilitate the integration of strategy, personnel, business and IT. In Finland, the use of EA ha...
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Epilogue
In this book we have portrayed several perspectives on humans in information systems development. Although we have aimed at providing as comprehensive understanding as possible, these perspectives are only som...
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Three Levels of Failure: Analysing a Workflow Management System
In this paper we report on a case study of the introduction of a workflow management for travel management in a higher education organisation. We aim at addressing two central questions. Firstly, why did a wor...
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Introduction: Reframing Humans and Information Systems
Recent development of information and communication technologies (ICT) provides information systems (IS) designers with new potentialities to build systems for various purposes. The ongoing digital convergence...
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“What We Cannot Speak about We Must Pass over in Silence” – (In)correctly Arguing and Comparing the Costs of IT Investments in Public Sector
In our era of increasing capitalism a cost-based reasoning is often used, also in public sector, for arguing and comparing the costs within and between different institutions. One of the approaches is the tota...
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Studying Utility of Personal Usage-History: A Software Tool for Enabling Empirical Research
Managing personal information space and working context is complicated in computerized environment. One well-known cause for the problem is that digital information is superficially fragmented into different d...
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Smart ICT Support for Business Networks
