Managing and Delivering Information Technology Value

Delivering Business Value of Information Technology: the Moderating Role of Alignment

The business value of IT has been hugely studied in previous research. Although much effort has been paid to it, the so-called “IT productivity paradox” does not seem to be completely resolved so far. Some researchers argued that it is an issue of analysis level, while others tried to come up with new measures of firm performance. Another perspective, which is adopted in this paper, is to find ...

Managing Information Technology In Transnational Enterprises

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly shifting from global or multinational strategies towards a transnational strategy (Barlett & Ghoshal 1989), as intense competition drives MNEs to simultaneously pursue scale, responsiveness, and innovation. Such a shift has important implications for IT management. How can IT in MNEs be managed to enable all three objectives? We draw on ambidext...

Managing Educational Information Technology (IT) Transformation

Private universities are emerging rapidly in Egypt and are facing a number of critical challenges. Educational Information Technology (IT) is considered one of the most important factors for competition, survival, and sustainability in the education industry. Any change in technology consecutively affects other factors and vice versa. With the move of the American University in Cairo (AUC) from...

Added Value and Pricing with Information Technology

Information technology investments and firm value

Our objective in this paper is to develop a firm value model to assist IT managers and researchers in understanding the multiple effects that IT investments have on firm value. This firm value approach adds to the process-oriented approach through simultaneous evaluation of all of the factors that affect firm value. It is crucial for IT professionals to recognize the complex and diverse implica...