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Transaction cost economics (TCE) is much used in outsourcing research. We applied two TCE attributes - asset specificity and frequency - to characterise IT infrastructure services and to indicate what type of outsourcing contracts should be concluded. We classified outsourcing contracts of 213 enterprises to determine if TCE contracting recommendations were followed, and if outsourcing succeeded better when the contract type matched the IT infrastructure service characteristics. Results reveal that enterprises do not follow TCE contract recommendations. They probably should. In application services the match of contract type and service characteristics was positively related to absolute IT outsourcing success
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In recent years, a number of new payment solutions have been introduced with little success. The solutions have mostly been technology driven at the cost of convenience and value to the consumer. In this research in progress we investigate what characteristics of mobile payment solutions increase or decrease consumers' willingness to adopt these solutions. We also specify managerial implications for the guidance of consumers' payment solution adoption. As a frame of reference for understanding and explaining consumer value perceptions we use three befitting theories: Consumer perceived value (Gronroos, 1997), Technology acceptance model (Davis et. al., 1989), and network externalities theory (Shapiro & Varian, 1999). We conducted four focus group interviews for data collection. The results imply that mobile payment solutions are perceived to be valuable for small everyday purchases and other small purchases. There are, at the same time, still many concerns related to e.g. security and pricing. Ease of use, security, low transaction costs, and wide applicability of the solutions increase perceived customer value and should be managed by mobile payment solution providers. This research indicates clearly that only technically driven development may lack relevance for the potential users of mobile payment solutions.
Digital supply chain integration is becoming \ increasingly dynamic. Access to customer demand \ needs to be shared effectively, and product and service \ deliveries must be tracked to provide visibility in the \ supply chain. Business process integration is based on \ standards and reference architectures, which should \ offer end-to-end integration of product data. \ Companies operating in supply chains establish \ process and data integration through the specialized \ intermediate companies, whose role is to establish \ interoperability by mapping and integrating companyspecific \ data for various organizations and systems. \ This has typically caused high integration costs, and \ diffusion is slow. This paper investigates the \ requirements and functionalities of supply chain \ integration. Cloud integration can be expected to offer \ a cost-effective business model for interoperable \ digital supply chains. We explain how supply chain \ integration through the blockchain technology can \ achieve disruptive transformation in digital supply \ chains and networks.
How to establish IT governance for social welfare and health care IT is an issue faced by organizations within this sector. Needs to establish inter-organizational IT governance arrangements have increased. They facilitate data sharing, pooling of development efforts...
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Breast cancers, similar to any other types of cancers or diseases, need treatments and other actions that generate medical and patient data. As the owner of the data about him-/herself, a patient has the right to get and inspect all basic, treatment and other data...
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Suomen Pankin projekti Suomalaiset maksutavat ennakoi suomalaisten maksutottumusten olevan suurten muutosten edessa. Muutosten syita ovat muun muassa eurooppalaisten maksujarjestelmien integroituminen ja standardoituminen, maksupalveluja koskevan lainsaadannon ja saantelyn EU-tasoinen kehittaminen, maksupalvelujen kustannustekijoiden ja hinnoittelukaytantojen muutokset seka tekniikan kehityksen tarjoamat uudet mahdollisuudet. Viime vuosina on kehitetty paljon uusia maksuvalineita ja -palveluita, joille on tunnusomaista tieto- ja viestintatekniikan kayttoon perustuvan automaation lisaantyminen.Harva uusi palvelu on menestynyt.Maksamisen muutoksia koskevan ymmarryksen lisaamiseksi tassa tutkimusraportissa selvitetaan kuluttajien tarpeiden, mieltymysten ja tottumusten vaikutusta uusien maksutapojen kayttoonottoon.Tutkimusaineisto kerattiin syyskuussa 2005 postikyselylla, jossa kaytiin lapi keskeiset maksutavat. Kysely lahetettiin 2000:lle satunnaisotannalla poimitulle suomalaiselle kuluttajalle.Tutkimuksen tulosten mukaan maksuvalineen turvallisuus ja luotettavuus koetaan tarkeimmiksi uuden maksutavan ominaisuuksiksi.Muita tarkeiksi koettuja maksuvalineen ominaisuuksia ovat tiedon saanti maksutapahtumasta, yhteensopivuus ostamis- ja maksutottumuksiin, laajakayttoisyys, helppokayttoisyys, ajan tai rahan saasto seka riippumattomuus ajasta ja paikasta.Uudet maksutavat - sahkoinen lasku ja ostosten maksaminen matkapuhelimella - eivat vuoteen 2010 mennessa syrjayta vakiintuneita maksutapoja arvioituna sen perusteella, mitka ovat kuluttajille tarkeimpia ominaisuuksia.Luotettavuus tai hinnoittelu ei erottele tarkeimpien uusien maksutapojen - sahkoinen lasku ja matkapuhelimella maksaminen - kayttoon myonteisesti ja kielteisesti suhtautuvia.Suppea joukko tekijoita erottelee maksutapojaan muuttavat maksutapojaan muut4 tamattomista.Maksutavan helppokayttoisyys vaikuttaa aikeisiin maksaa seka sahkoisella laskulla etta matkapuhelimella.Yhteensopivuus (laajakayttoisyys) ja helppokayttoisyys ovat matkapuhelimella maksamiseen vaikuttavia erottelevia tekijoita.Asiasanat: maksutavat, kuluttajille suunnatut maksupalvelut, kuluttajakayttaytyminen, innovaatioiden diffuusio, theory of planned behavior (TPB) JEL-luokittelu: A14, D14, L81,O33
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Practitioners and researchers have identified numerous variables that impact IT project success. Rather than adding new variables, we attempted to reduce them to a more generic model. First, we identified potential factors, hypothesized about the relationships between the factors and then integrated the hypotheses into a research model. In addition to project level factors, we identified IT, business, and environment level factors. The model is thus multilevel but also integrative as it hypothesizes about the relation-ships between the model factors. Finally, we empirically evaluated the hypotheses and the research model. We used survey data of 249 CxOs for the empirical evaluation. Results confirmed that the research model factors contributed directly and indirectly on the success of IT projects. According to our findings, a favorable financial situation, highly-perceived importance of IT, and good IT and IT project competencies have especially significant positive impacts on IT project success.
In a modern organization, IT and digital data have transformed from being functional resources to integral elements of business strategy. Against this background, our article addresses corporate governance of digital data in general and that of aging societies in particular. To describe the role of executives and managers in data governance, we first review the corporate and IT governance literature. We then propose a theoretical framework for the governance of data: a novel construct. We apply the framework to the governance of aging societies related data, that is, to answer the question of how best to manage the provision of services to citizens with digital data enablement and support. We also disclose the results from two recent surveys, with 212 and 68 respondents respectively, on the business significance of data governance. The survey results reveal that good governance of data is considered critical to organizations. As concluding remarks, we discuss the significance of our results, our contributions to research, the limitations of our study and its managerial implications.
We investigate the determinants of CIOs' organizational role and tasks. We first review previous studies, which we classify as either evolutionary or CIO role studies. We consider them to be characteristic to the usage of certain technologies or certain periods of times. We modify Leavitt's well-known model to describe factors that shape the role and the tasks of CIOs over time, industries and technologies. We validate the model from interviews with 36 CIOs within six industries covering the time period from 1960s to present times. We also show that the model can be used to categorize prior research findings. We then use the model to describe how business strategy impacts CIOs' role and tasks and how changes in business strategy influence CIOs and vice versa. We discovered that the modified Leavitt model is a useful description of factors that both define CIOs' role and tasks at any particular time in any specific organization, and show how those tasks change.
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Information and communication technology (ICT) has become an integral part of the daily municipal administration, production and development of municipal services. Social services and health care account for ≥ 50% of municipal ICT expenditure. Municipalities operate and develop their ICT activities with limited ICT resources. This is an incentive for inter-municipal ICT cooperation. Four sets of secondary data are analysed in this article to evaluate how ICT cooperation is carried out in 20 Finnish municipal regions. Transaction cost economics (TCE), resource-based view (RBV), resource dependency theory (RDT) and the concepts of Granovetter’s social network theory are reviewed. The data are used to describe the expected and perceived economic and social benefits of inter-municipal ICT cooperation, and to understand the social connections that influence the execution of inter-municipal ICT cooperation. The data analysis revealed distinctive differences in the amount and forms of ICT cooperation, and regarding its governance. The results suggest that public organisations were able to benefit substantially from well-organised ICT cooperation. The characteristics of social networks were also found to relate to variations in the degree to which ICT cooperation was performed.
Widely spread breast cancer takes patients to an early grave. Early detection and the ability to predict the effectiveness of treatments are among the means used to fight various malignant cancers. Data federation from multiple data sources is needed for data analytics. Granularity, internality, structure and other characteristics often differ in federated data. We discuss alternative approaches to data federation and their theoretical basis, especially the stance regarding the ontology of data. We also develop an artifact to federate cancer data at a university hospital. Our approach and the artifact improved data interoperability, i.e., data federation. We suggest the same to be repeated in other data federation contexts.
IT Business Value (ITBV) research generally proposes that various “good” IT governance and management practices influence positively IT performance. Yet, this claim has proved hard to verify with empirical data. In this study we first identified and analyzed factors that are seen to influence IT deployment success, then hypothesized about the relationships among and between these factors and finally integrated the hypotheses into a research model. We then empirically evaluated the hypotheses and the entire research model. The consistency of IT investments as the response to the cyclical behavior of the economy is a novel factor introduced in this study to the ITBV research. Special attention was also placed on the perceived importance of IT to business, business-IT alignment and IT management. We used survey data of 212 responses collected from CxOs during an economic recession to test the hypotheses and the model for path coefficients and indirect effects. Empirical results confirmed that all research model factors influenced positively IT deployment success. Moreover, high values in the perceived importance of IT, business-IT alignment and the quality of IT management were discovered to be antecedents to the consistency of IT investments, and when that was achieved, the impact was positive on IT deployment success.
