IT consumerization is both a major opportunity and significant challenge for organizations. However, IS research has hardly discussed the implications for IT management so far. In this paper we address this topic by empirically identifying organizational themes for IT consumerization and conceptually exploring the direct and indirect effects on the business value of IT, IT capabilities, and the...

Traditional risk analysis approaches are based on events, probabilities and impacts. They are complex, time-consuming, and costly, and have limitations regarding the data and assessment quality: First, security events have to be identified often without much methodological guidance, making the process prone to errors and omissions. Second, concrete probability values for these events usually ha...

Small and medium enterprise (SME) digitalisation involves the reinforcement, modification, renewal of business models with help digital technologies. It is widely considered imperative for SMEs to stay relevant in age. Yet, little known about conditions under which SME improves performance IS literature. Guided by literature, we postulate that value – based on its impact improving financial fir...

In this paper, we dealt with substantial asset analysis methodology applied to twodimensional asset classification and qualitative evaluation method according to the business process. Most of the existent risk analysis methodology and tools presented classification by asset type and physical evaluation by a quantitative method. We focused our research on qualitative evaluation with 2-dimensiona...

As project managers (PMs) play an important role in project success, assigning PMs with appropriate skills and personalities to projects is a crucial task. Nevertheless, empirical research on skill requirements for information technology (IT) PMs is limited and little information systems literature focuses on the role of internally recruited IT PMs. This paper presents a case study of a trouble...

Business process management is often considered as a top-downmanagement activity. This view is inconsistent with the observation that information infrastructures are at drift, outside top-downmanagement control. To reconcile both views, a meta-framework is presented that frames the interplay of the design and emergence of business processes. Business processes are identified as a particular for...

Research on business value of information technology (IT) has recognised that organisational factors play critical roles in affecting how IT impacts on firm performance. However, the conceptualisation of organisational factors and their relationship with IT and firm performance has not been extensively developed in the literature. There is neither a coherent way of specifying organisational fac...

Mixedempiricalresults about the valueof IT inves nts arean invitation to seekbetter theory. Recently, a number ofresearchers have proposed theoretical models that trace the path IT investment inputs take on the way to creating business value. Despite substantive differences, the theoretical models share some common elements n particular, all of them contain a cause-effect argument of the "neces...

Given the downturn in student enrolments in Information Systems (IS) and Information Technology (IT) units, and the poor performance of a first-year IS and IT common-core unit in a business school, a new unit was developed. Action and design science research methods were employed. The new unit has a unique focus on two key skills and on modern IT and information literacy. The first skill involv...