Paper Info
Title
Information technology assessment and adoption: understanding the information centre role
Abstract
This paper reports the results of a study of the impact of end user computing strategies, and in particular organizational Information Centre activities, upon an organization's information technology assessment and adoption process. Over 40 managers in ten organizations were interviewed using a discussion questionnaire. The purpose of the interviews was to probe, in a semi-structured way, various aspects of the roles played by these firms' Information Centres in identifying, assessing and absorbing new information technology into the firm. It was found that the impact of Information Centres on technology absorption could be broadly characterized using two constructs: Acceleration (the rate at which new technology is introduced) and Control (the variety of choices made possible to users of the technology). By considering Acceleration and Control together, four different states are identified and characterized. Typical growth patterns through the different states are described, based on actual histories from the companies studied. Also, the major factors that influence end user computing strategies, and the various tactics available for implementing user computing as a function of the various states, are delineated.
Year
DOI
Venue
1985
10.1145/16687.16691
SIGCPR '85 Proceedings of the twenty-first annual conference on Computer personnel research
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
technology absorption,different state,new technology,information centres,information centre role,particular organizational information centre,user computing,new information technology,influence end user computing,end user computing strategy,information technology assessment,information technology,end user computing
Conference
0-89791-156-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
1.80
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Malcolm Munro1877199.56
Sid L. Huff21527217.67