Management of lifecycle costs and benefits: lessons from information systems practice

Berghout, E. and Nijland, M. and Powell, Philip (2011) Management of lifecycle costs and benefits: lessons from information systems practice. Computers In Industry 62 (7), pp. 755-764. ISSN 0166-3615.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2011.05.005

Abstract

Assessing the economic feasibility of information systems (IS) projects and operations remains a challenge for most organizations. This research investigates lifecycle cost and benefit management practices and demonstrates that, overall, although organizations intend to improve their information technology (IT) management, they squander many opportunities to do so. There are inconsistencies in cost/benefit management practices. Most organizations that integrate operational benefits into investment analyses do not acknowledge operational costs. Planned project goals are seldom formulated in a verifiable or measurable way; there is little structured feedback on individual lifecycle activities, nor co-ordination of various activities. Thus, the attitude towards cost/benefit management appears primarily context-related and incident-driven. A further development of the system lifecycle-based approach is needed to improve IT cost/benefit management theory and practice, because a coherent set of methods is required to assess IT costs and benefits throughout the entire lifecycle.

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Item Type:	Article
Keyword(s) / Subject(s):	Information system evaluation, IT governance, information system value, IT value, information management
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Research Centres and Institutes:	Birkbeck Knowledge Lab
Depositing User:	Administrator
Date Deposited:	23 Jun 2011 08:19
Last Modified:	09 Aug 2023 12:30
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/3755

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