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Dokumen - Tips - Chapter 11 Introduction To Information Technology Turban Rainer and Potter
Dokumen - Tips - Chapter 11 Introduction To Information Technology Turban Rainer and Potter
Chapter 11
ACQUIRING AND
IMPLEMENTING SYSTEMS
Chapter 11
Acquiring IT Applications and
Infrastructure
Chapter 11 3
Chapter Outline
The landscape and framework of IT application
acquisition.
Planning for and justifying information system
applications.
Strategies for acquiring IT applications: available
options.
Outsourcing and application service providers.
Criteria for selecting an acquisition approach.
Vendor and software selection and other
implementation issues.
Connecting to databases and business partners.
Balanced Evaluates the overall health of organizations and projects, by looking at the
scorecard method organization’s short- and long-term financial metrics, customers, internal business
processes and learning and growth (Kaplan and Norton, 1996).
Activity- based Applies principles of activity-based costing (ABC)( which allocates costs based on
costing approach each product’s use of company activities in making the product) to IT investment
analysis.
EIAC model Methodology for implementing IT payoff initiatives, composed of 9 phases, divided
into four categories: exploration (E), involvement (I), analysis (A) and
communication (C).
the company can know what it is getting before it invests in the product
Purchased software may avoid the need to hire personnel specifically dedicated to a project.
Software may be difficult or impossible to modify, or it may require huge business process
change to implement.
The company will not have control over software improvement and new versions.
External acquisition (buy or lease) controlled by another company with its own
Software can be tried out priorities and business considerations.
Software has been used for similar problem Package’s limitations may prevent desired
in other organizations business processes
Reduces time spent for analysis, design and May be difficult to get needed
programming enhancements.
Has good documentation that will be lack of intimate knowledge about how the
maintained software work and why it works that way