Ict Strategy: Does a Federated Organisational Structure
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Signature: Nathan van Rooyen
ICT Strategy: does a federated organisational structure influence effective development and execution thereof?
Research proposal presented to the
Department of Information Systems
University Of Cape Town
By
Nathan van Rooyen
In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the
Part-time Information Systems Honours 2006
Contents
1. Background 3
2. Objectives 3
3. Research question and hypothesis 4
4. Framework 4
5. Plan to deliver thesis 4
6. Planned Bibliography 5
1. Background
Virtually all business entities employ information and communication technologies {ICT} in one form or another. Larger organisation may find it near impossible to do business without ICT and as part of their strategic growth plans should have a strategy for how ICT will be used by the organisation. There are well-documented statistics of the high failure rates of ICT projects and many case studies and examples of disastrous decisions made by organisations around the deployment of ICT that lead to no business value being realised from investment in ICT.
There are a many definitions of what an organisation is and various options are available for organisations to structure and organise it. One-man organisations, partnerships, companies, etc are all forms of organisations, which may be structured along function, geographic locations, matrices, etc. The type of organisation and the way in which an organisation is structured could be a
1. I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is to use another’s work and pretend that it is one’s own.
2. I have used the Harvard convention for citation and referencing. Each contribution to, and quotation in this essay from the work(s) of other people has been attributed, and has been cited and referenced.
3. This essay is my own work.
4. I have not allowed, and will not allow, anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as his or her own work.
Signature: Nathan van Rooyen
ICT Strategy: does a federated organisational structure influence effective development and execution thereof?
Research proposal presented to the
Department of Information Systems
University Of Cape Town
By
Nathan van Rooyen
In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the
Part-time Information Systems Honours 2006
Contents
1. Background 3
2. Objectives 3
3. Research question and hypothesis 4
4. Framework 4
5. Plan to deliver thesis 4
6. Planned Bibliography 5
1. Background
Virtually all business entities employ information and communication technologies {ICT} in one form or another. Larger organisation may find it near impossible to do business without ICT and as part of their strategic growth plans should have a strategy for how ICT will be used by the organisation. There are well-documented statistics of the high failure rates of ICT projects and many case studies and examples of disastrous decisions made by organisations around the deployment of ICT that lead to no business value being realised from investment in ICT.
There are a many definitions of what an organisation is and various options are available for organisations to structure and organise it. One-man organisations, partnerships, companies, etc are all forms of organisations, which may be structured along function, geographic locations, matrices, etc. The type of organisation and the way in which an organisation is structured could be a
Bibliography: The following sources will be used: • Books on management, ICT management, ICT strategy, organisational structures. Authors include • Journal articles on the keywords above • A survey • Conversations with academic staff at UCT, employees of companies in the survey and fellow students in the part-time IS Honours