Conference presentation
The nature and processes of IT-related change
Drexel University. College of Information Science and Technology. Faculty Publications and Research.
03 Dec 2007
Abstract
This paper presents the findings of an empirical survey of senior IT managers' perceptions of their company's approach to IT-related change in the UK. The survey was based upon a theoretically-derived framework for the classification of information systems development approaches: this is used to map trends in development approaches graphically. The findings of this study are also used to examine the feasibility of academic, business-process oriented approaches to IT-change strategies, which encourage high degrees of user-participation in the change process - an examination that has largely been missing from contemporary discussions of IT-related organisational change. The paper thus has important implications for research and practice. Specifically, the findings suggest that the overall management approach to IT-related change is less critical to the extent of user-participation in the overall change-process than is the question of whether system development is performed in-house or by a third-party. Additionally, these findings demonstrate the overriding preponderance of technical/functional approaches to IS development during the system design stage of development, regardless of whether a business/organisational or a technical/functional emphasis is given to the IT-related change overall.
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- Title
- The nature and processes of IT-related change
- Creators
- Susan Gasson (Author) - Drexel University (1970-)Niki Holland (Author) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Publication Details
- Drexel University. College of Information Science and Technology. Faculty Publications and Research.
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- DU; College of Information Science and Technology (1995-2013)
- Identifiers
- 991014632066304721