IT Area Research Articles

European national news

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe. This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal's feature articles and briefing notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening "on the ground" at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

European national news

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe. This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal’s feature articles and briefing notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

Project Management Offices in the IT Area: A Context–Discriminant Model for their Establishment

The authors of this study developed a conceptual model of the drivers behind the decision to create a project management office for the Information Technology area and tested the model by applying discriminant analysis to data gathered from 40 large companies. The results indicate that the discriminant model significantly differentiates the contexts of firms with and without IT project management offices. The study contributes to theoretical progress in the field and is useful to practitioners.

European national news

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe. This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal’s feature articles and briefing notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

Organisational manoeuvres for exploring and exploiting external knowledge

The present paper explores how organisations pursue explorative and exploitative learning when using highly skilled dependent or independent contractors as external knowledge workers. It investigates why and how organisations balance stable exploitative and flexible explorative relationships with contractors, and examines the factors that influence this balance. To do this, it develops a conceptual framework that represents organisational manoeuvres for explorative and exploitative learning in the context of boundary-spanning organisational learning. The findings presented herein are based on a qualitative empirical analysis of engineering and IT areas across seven industries, and show that the exchange of existing contractors for new ones leads to a restructuring of the contractor portfolio of the firm. Further, this exchange process can be considered to be an experimental practice that results in organisational learning between exploitation and exploration.

Performing the IT General Controls Audit

The IT general controls assessment performed by internal audit is the best way to get an objective and comprehensive analysis of the controls in place to manage technology risks and the overall risks to the enterprise related to its use and management of technology. The assessment covers many specialized technical areas, management of the technical IT areas, the use of technology to operate and manage business and governance processes, and ensuring processes, practices, and results remain in compliance with requirements. The example audit program referenced in this article provides a starting point for planning, designing, and performing the audit customized to your organization. The article also sends you to the many references and sources of guidance you will need to perform the work. So get going!

European national news

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe. This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal’s feature articles and briefing notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

The Scalability and the Strategy for EMR Database Encryption Techniques

EMR(Electronic Medical Record) is an emerging technology that is highly-blended between non-IT and IT area. One of methodology to link non-IT and IT area is to construct databases. Nowadays, it supports before and after-treatment for patients and should satisfy all stakeholders such as practitioners, nurses, researchers, administrators and financial department and so on. In accordance with the database maintenance, DAS (Data as Service) model is one solution for outsourcing. However, there are some scalability and strategy issues when we need to plan to use DAS model properly. We constructed three kinds of databases such as plain-text, MS built-in encryption which is in-house model and custom AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) - DAS model scaling from 5K to 2560K records. To perform custom AES-DAS better, we also devised Bucket Index using Bloom Filter. The simulation showed the response times arithmetically increased in the beginning but after a certain threshold, exponentially increased in the end. In conclusion, if the database model is close to in-house model, then vendor technology is a good way to perform and get query response times in a consistent manner. If the model is DAS model, it is easy to outsource the database, however, some technique like Bucket Index enhances its utilization. To get faster query response times, designing database such as consideration of the field type is also important. This study suggests cloud computing would be a next DAS model to satisfy the scalability and the security issues.

European national news

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe. This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal’s feature articles and briefing notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

IS/IT Capability and Strategic Information System Planning (SISP) Success

[Abstract] Strategic planning of information systems is, perhaps, going to be more problematic in today’s world of rapid change and uncertainty. SISP is a cornerstone of the information system discipline, and very little attention has been paid to its success based on the resource-based view of the firm (RBV). This paper provides a model for IT capability and strategic information system planning success by considering environmental and organizational factors that may influence this relationship in a contingency model. A review of existing IT capability and SISP literature is given to identify the opportunities in building successful SISP. A model is developed by hypothesizing the IT capability, as independent variables lead to SISP success as a dependent variable in which organizational and environmental influences are considered as moderating variables. The control variables are firm size, firm structure, and industry type. The study proposes a model to conceptualize the relationship between IT capabilities and SISP success and contingency factors moderating that relationship. This paper explains the ways of exploiting IT capabilities as specialized and integrated knowledge of the firm in IT area to create a more successful SISP. The researchers believe that the aim to build a model for SISP success based on RBV theory is important because this new perspective will be helpful for gaining a superior assessment and better underpinning of the SISP from a knowledge-based perspective.

SOA, ERP II e competências organizacionais: traços de inovação na moderna gestão de TI

Este trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar qual é o papel das competências organizacionais que estão vinculadas ao universo de gestão da tecnologia SOA e dos sistemas ERPs no processo de sustentação do valor de uso destes aplicativos no cenário macroeconômico brasileiro, em sua perspectiva de pós-implementação. Para tal, utiliza o referencial teórico associado tanto à literatura voltada para o estudo das competências organizacionais como também à literatura voltada para o a gestão dos sistemas ERPs, com foco em sua perspectiva de principal ator da suíte de aplicativos associados à Tecnologia da Informação. A metodologia utilizada no estudo previu o desenvolvimento do método de estudo de casos múltiplos, através do qual as informações colhidas nas empresas foram analisadas em conjunto e de forma cruzada, possibilitando a identificação mais robusta das competências organizacionais e de suas respectivas aderências ao problema da pesquisa. As evidências empíricas sugerem que de fato existe um conjunto de competências organizacionais, especializada na gestão da área de TI envolvendo os aplicativos ERPs, inovação em TI e das tecnologias SOA e ERP II. Tem-se como conclusão que há três principais competências organizacionais ligadas aos sistemas ERP II que devem ser desenvolvidas pelas empresas de forma a maximizar o valor de uso desta tecnologia em função da competitividade e resultados organizacionais.

Globalization and Economic Asymmetries in International Trade and Development: Challenges, Opportunities and Their Impact on Global Employment

Economic asymmetries can be described as differences in economic conditions among different countries and different regions in the world. This paper focuses on the various key features of contemporary globalization and international competitiveness, underscoring the growing interdependence of the developed and the developing countries and the resultant political as well as economic stakes. Globalization has created many challenges such as increased global competitiveness, sustenance of global value chains, need for global off-shoring and outsourcing, maintenance of continuous growth and development in both the developed as well as the developing countries, need for global-scale integration and coordination in labour movement, as well as understanding the complexities of relationship between globalization and employment. Some of the areas to be considered while speaking about opportunities created by globalization are opportunities of creation of millions of jobs for the people in developing countries like China, India and South East Asian countries, which become a key driver for their economic development, availability of an array of knowledge intensive business services, such as engineering design, accounting, legal and medical advice, financial analysis and business consultancies, inflow of technology from developed to developing countries and outflow of trained manpower from developing to developed countries specially in the areas of IT and software development industries. The paper aims to bring out a comprehensive viewpoint on both challenges faced and opportunities created by economic asymmetries and globalization.

Maturity Models in Information Systems Research: Literature Search and Analysis

This article collects and analyzes seventy-six maturity model articles that have been published in leading Information Systems (IS) journals and conference proceedings during the past fifteen years. We study the IS literature on maturity models from three different perspectives: a research perspective, which is particularly relevant for scholars who are interested in the design and adoption of maturity models; a publication perspective, which reflects the interests of authors and reviewers of maturity model articles; and a practitioner‟s perspective, which is especially relevant for maturity model users and consultants. The results are interesting in several respects. From the research perspective, the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is the most dominant foundation of past IS research on maturity models. In contrast, theories on the design and adoption of maturity models are distinctly rare in our sample. The publication outlets that are considered feature quantitative and qualitative empirical research alike, but―with a decreasing number―purely conceptual research as well. Of late, past maturity model research can mainly be located in the area of IT and organizations, while the formerly very popular domain of IS development is of less interest today. As for the publication perspective, we find that the level of publication activity in the field has generally been increasing over the last fifteen years, with North American and European researchers dominating the academic discussion. Finally, with regard to the practitioner‟s perspective, we compile advice on the practical application of maturity models from a critical analysis of the literature. It is hoped that the results can stimulate and guide future research in the field and inform the development and usage of theoretically sound maturity models in practice.

Review the benefits of using value engineering in information technology project management

Abstract The fast-growing movement of the modern societies shows increasing implementation of operational projects in the areas of IT in organizational and national levels. And it is special and important because of the very high risks that large projects (and even small ones) experience, so we decided to examine the role of value engineering in the process of project implementation and to deal with it step by step in our project, hence the importance of beginning to define value engineering and its position among the different nations. Finally, we have proposed the expression of different techniques used in value engineering with different phases of expression during the life of IT projects, using techniques based on the proposals presented.

A Study on the New Types of Business Administrations for Innovation under the Smart Work Environment

As the spacetime restriction free business becomes possible in compliance with the wide spread of social media through rapid propagation of smart phones and remote working etc., the positive activity for successful smart work implementation by major countries and many enterprises are being deployed. Korea which falled behind other advanced countries for adoption of smartwork needs to make double efforts in the forthcoming smartwork business area to be a continuous leading country as it used to be in the past IT area. Compare with traditional smartwork 1.0, future smartwork 2.0 is more creative, innovative and human/nature friendly. Smartwork 2.0 is the way of working to maximize the creativity by involving outside cooperators' capability and conforming to human sensitivity and emotion. This study suggests the management models proper to the future smartwork environment. This study will review the existing enterprises, government operation and rethink about the efficient management models in the rapidly changing smart work environment.

European national news

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications–co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe. This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal’s feature articles and briefing notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

PROJETOS DE TI: MATURIDADE X DESEMPENHO - DOI:10.5585/RAI.2010346

Este artigo apresenta um levantamento (survey) feito com 130 projetos da área de TI que permitiu avaliar a relação entre grau de maturidade em gestão de projetos da organização executante e o desempenho de projetos. A maturidade foi avaliada pelo grau de formalização dos processos de gestão de projetos descritos no PMBoK, e o desempenho dos projetos por meio da definição de Shenhar (2001). Foi possível verificar os processos de gestão de projetos não têm a mesma relação com o desempenho dos projetos.

European national news

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe. This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal’s feature articles and briefing notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.

Introduction: Cybersecurity

Enterprise security, often considered a burden for system administrators and users alike, is one of the most rapidly evolving areas of IT. The articles in this issue can help IT professionals who want to be intelligent providers or consumers of secure products and services.

European national news

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications - co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe. This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal's feature articles and briefing notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening "on the ground" at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.