Building a Conceptual Framework for It Project Success: Cios’ Perspective

Organizations all over the world have invested a great deal of resources in achieving goals though the successful implementation of major IT projects, which can have a significant effect at the organizational level. Therefore, the importance of project success continuously motivates researchers to investigate this development, and many project success frameworks have been proposed by different scholars. This paper presents a new conceptual framework for project success in Saudi Arabian public organizations from the CIOs’ perspective, based on the researchers’ previous studies as this paper is part of ongoing work. The proposed framework consists of three components: the critical success factors as independent variables, the organizational culture as a moderator variable, and the project success criteria as a dependent variable.