Assessment of Risk on Information Technology Projects Through Moments of Translation

Autor: Petronnell Sehlola, Tiko Iyamu
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation. 4:1-12
ISSN: 1942-5368
1942-535X
DOI: 10.4018/jantti.2012070101
Popis: Many of the IT solutions in an organisation are employed through IT projects. Based on the reliance on IT solutions, organisations’ investment on IT projects has increased tremendously in the last two decades. This is informed and triggered by the premises that IT will help them to yield solutions that will fulfill or exceed their expectations, thereby make the organisation realise the required return on investment. Projects are a means to yield solutions through technological artefacts such as infrastructure (networks included), applications, databases or a combination of these. The technological artefacts do carries or are associated with foreseen or unforeseen risks. Hence proper risk identification and management on IT projects is necessitated to ensure that the organisation reaches its desire state. Unfortunately, risks are never easy to identify or manage. Using one case, the study employed actor-network theory in the analysis of the data to understand the factors which manifest themselves into risks during the deployment of IT projects in the organisation.
Databáze: OpenAIRE