Information Technology Investment Strategy Planning: Balance Scorecard Approach

TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT ADVISOR: An Options-Based Approach to Technology Strategy

Recent years have seen increased efforts to link technology strategies to business strategies, which requires expressing returns on technology investments in terms of business impacts. These impacts are usually many years in the future and highly uncertain. These factors are typically addressed by applying discounted cash flow methods to valuing alternative investments. This approach often show...

Evaluation of information technology investment: a data envelopment analysis approach

The increasing use of information technology (IT) has resulted in a need for evaluating the productivity impacts of IT. The contemporary IT evaluation approach has focused on return on investment and return on management. IT investment has impacts on different stages of business operations. For example, in the banking industry, IT plays a key role in effectively generating (i) funds from the cu...

An Extreme Value Approach to Information Technology Security Investment

Information technology security investment is receiving increasing attention in recent years. Various methods have been proposed to determine the effective level of security investment. In this paper, we introduce an extreme value approach to address the issues of effective budgeting and investing in IT security. In our model, the security status of a system depends on two factors: system secur...

Hospital Investment in Information Technology:

We examine the adoption of patient care IT systems by US short-term acute care hospitals and the resulting impact these systems have in the productivity of hospitals. Of particular interest is the extent to which forprofit and non-profit hospitals obtain different results from the adoption of IT systems. We find that the marginal effect of IT on for-profit hospital productivity is to reduce the...

Designing strategy maps of balance scorecard by using structural equation modeling