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Proceedings of
The 11th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation
held at Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam
11-12 November 2004

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Paper Title

Author(s)

Page

Preface

 

vi

Biographies of Conference Chairs

 

vii

Biographies of contributing authors

 

viii

Integrating Information Systems After a Merger: Challenges and Opportunities

Maria Alaranta
Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Turku, Finland

1

Using Causal Mapping Methods to Identify and Analyse Risk in Information System Projects as a Post-Evaluation Process

Abdullah J. Al-Shehab, Robert T. Hughes and Graham Winstanley
University of Brighton, UK

9

Personal Knowledge Management

Dace Apshvalka
Riga Technical University
, Latvia

17

Empirical Study on Knowledge Based Systems

Gabriela Avram
Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxembourg

23

IT Value, Meaning and Identity: An Exploration of Things to Come

Frank Bannister
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

33

Performance Measurement in e-Business

David Barnes1 and Matthew Hinton2
1
School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London, UK, 2Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, UK

43

Emergent Theory and Technology in e-Learning

Marie-Joëlle Browaeys1 and Stephanus Eko Wahyudi2
1
University Nyenrode, The Netherlands, 2University of Surabaya, Indonesia

51

Building Evaluation Into REALITY Telecare

Ewart Carson, Derek Cramp, Howard Leicester and Abdul Roudsari
Centre for Measurement & Information in Medicine, City University, London, UK

59

Investigating Mobile Payments Systems: Conceptual and Wireless Technologies Aspects

Jiajun Jim Chen and Carl Adams
University of Portsmouth, UK

67

'Smart Mobs' and Technology Probes: Evaluating Texting at Work

Keith Cheverst1, Dan Fitton1, Mark Rouncefield1 and Connor Graham2
1
University of Lancaster, UK, 2University of Melbourne, Australia

73

Information Systems Evaluation – Adding Process Descriptions to six Evaluation Types

Stefan Cronholm
Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden

81

Extending the ‘Enterprise Systems Experience’: Evaluating Change in Customer Orientations and Capabilities

Guillermo de Haro1 and Ryan R. Peterson2
1
Dept. of Information Systems, Instituto de Empresa, Spain, 2Information Management Research Center (IMRC), Spain

91

An ABC-based Approach for Operational Business – ICT Alignment

Guido Dedene1,2,3, Stijn Viaene1,2 , Bjorn Cumps1, and Manu De Backer1
1
Dept. of Applied Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Belgium, 3Business Studies Dept., Universiteit Van Amsterdam, The Netherlands

103

On a Balanced Methodology to Evaluate a Portfolio of ICT Investments

Dirk Deschoolmeester1, 2, Olivier Braet2 and Peter Willaert1
1
Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School; Belgium, 2Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium

115

Evaluating Internet Banking Web Sites in Brazil

Eduardo Diniz, Roseli Morena Porto and Tomi Adachi
Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (FGV/EAESP), Brazil

127

Pay Per Use (PPU) Computing: Decision Making Based on Capacity and Utility

Alea M. Fairchild and Willem J.H. van Groenendaal
Tilburg University, The Netherlands

137

IT Investment Evaluation – A Survey of Perceptions Among Managers in Sweden

Elisabeth Frisk and Anna Plantén
School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University, Sweden

145

Orica Latin America – Converting a Major IT Based Transformation Into Shareholder Value.

Paul D.R. Griffiths1 and Bernardo Stern2
1
The Birchman Group and Henley Management College UK; 2Orica Latin America.

155

Reflection Meetings as a Method for Learning and Evaluation

Kerstin Grundén
University of Trollhättan/Uddevalla, Sweden

169

Knowing the Knower: A Systems Development Case Study

Ciara Heavin, John McAvoy and Karen Neville
National University of Ireland University College Cork, Ireland

175

Application Portfolio Models in Practice – TOOLS for ICT Planning, Management and Business Value Evaluation

Ari P. Hirvonen
TietoEnator Corporation, Jyväskylä, Finland

183

Information and Communication Technologies in the Slovak Republic: Examination of the Current Development Trends

Miroslav Hrnciar and Zuzana Kucerová
Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Žilina, Slovakia

193

Internet Banking Software Ease of Use and Adoption – A Field Study

Ranjan B. Kini
School of Business and Economics, Indiana University Northwest, USA

203

Typical Problems in Information Systems – A Multiple Case Study in Six Finnish Organisations

Juha Kontio
Turku Polytechnic, Finland

211

80/20 Rule in ERP System Implementation - A Case Study on Maximising ROI

Przemyslaw Lech,
University of Gdansk, Poland

221

Methodology for Evaluating Electronic Academic Journals

Maricela López-Ornelas, Graciela Cordero-Arroyo and Eduardo Backhoff-Escudero
Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico

227

Evaluating the Quality of Use of Visual Data-Mining Tools

Dorina Marghescu1, Mikko Rajanen2 and Barbro Back1
1
Turku Centre for Computer Science, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 2Dept. of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Finland

239

The Evaluation of an Innovative Method to Provide an Effective Teaching and Learning Environment for IT and Multimedia Development.

Steve Martin, John Lynch and Robert Seago
School of Computing and Technology, University of East London, UK

251

Managing the IS function: Understanding the Impact of Word of Mouth, Past Experience and IS-Communications on Expectations of Service Quality

Annette Mills
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

261

Design and Evaluation of (B2C) e-Commerce Environments for the Total Customer-Experience

Shailey Minocha1, Dave Roberts2, Marian Petre1, Liisa Dawson1 and Nicola Millard3
1
Dept. of Computing, The Open University, Milton Keynes UK, 2Ease of Use, IBM UK Ltd, Warwick, UK, 3BT Exact, Ipswich, UK

269

Formative and Interpretive Approaches to the Evaluation of Community Focused Web-Fronted Projects.

Clodagh Miskelly, Anne Moggridge, Clare Stephenson and Morris Williams
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

281

Project Organisations for Global Software Products and Information Systems Development

Nazmun Nahar1 and Najmul Huda2
1
University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2Dept. of Information Processing, Tallinn Technical University, Estonia

289

Evaluation Process of an Outsourced Joint Information System Development Project in Finnish Universities – Learning Proactive Evaluation Practices

Antti Nurmi and Petri Hallikainen
Information Systems Science, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland

299

Diffusing Innovation Smartly

Kevin O’Sullivan1 and Karen Neville2
1
Ericsson, Cork, Ireland, 2National University of IrelandCork, Ireland.

309

PB-ISAM: A New Framework for the Assessment of Information Systems Within the Context of Organisation

Sevgi Özkan
Informatics Institute, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

319

e-Commerce Success? – kalahari.net a South African Case Study

Shaun Pather1, Dan Remenyi1, 2 and Andre de la Harpe1, 3
1
Cape Technikon, South Africa, 2Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 3kalahari.net, South Africa,

329

Business and Information Systems Alignment: Understanding the key Issues

Carla Marques Pereira1 and Pedro Sousa2
1CEO/EST-IPCB, Castelo Branco, Portugal, 2I.S.T e Link, Lisboa, Portugal,

341

Identifying Risk for e-Business development

Elias Pimenidis1, Colin J. Miller2 and Claire F. MacEachen2
1
The University of East London, Dagenham, UK, 2The University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland, UK

349

The Manager in the Field and Information and Communications Technology Success

Dan Remenyi1 and Paul D.R. Griffiths2 and Eduardo H. Diniz3
1
School of Systems and Data Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 2The Birchman Group, Chile and Henley Management College, UK, 3Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Brazil

359

Exception Based Approach for Information Systems Evaluation

Heikki Saastamoinen
University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

371

A Managerial Release-decision Model for IT-applications: Software Release Decisions: Do the Numbers Really Matter?

Hans Sassenburg and Egon Berghout
Centre of IT Economics Research, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

379

Evaluation of Open Source Software: Comparative Perspectives Between Proprietary and Open Code Development

Andrew Schofield and Amit Mitra
Information Systems Institute, Salford University, UK

389

The Use of Peer Assessment as a Component of the Assessment Strategy Used for IS Student Group Projects

Elsje Scott1, Nata van der Merwe2 and Derek Smith1
1Dept. of Information Systems, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2Xiplan (Pty) Ltd, Kenilworth, South Africa

397

Evaluating e-Business in Australia: A Measure of Operational and Financial Improvements

Mohini Singh and John Byrne
School of Business Information Technology, RMIT University, Australia

407

Ex-ante Evaluation of ERP systems: Towards a More Systematic Development of Methods in IT Evaluation

Lineke Sneller1, Jan Bots2 and Fred de Koning2
1Interface Europe, The Netherlands, 2Nyenrode University, The Netherlands

417

Evaluating Corporate Websites Trustworthiness, Practical Implementation of the Gianni Test

Victor A. Tsygankov
Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland

427

Empirical Evaluation and Comparison of Enterprise Models: A Framework and its Application.

Jean-Paul Van-Belle
University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

437

The Effective Communication of Evaluation Results to Business Executives

Peter Wendorff,
ASSET GmbH, Germany,

447

Beyond the “Average” User – A General Framework for Understanding the Determinants of IS Success Judgement at the Personal Level From Information on Individual Thinking and Reasoning About IS.

Tuan Yu
Canterbury Business School, University of Kent, UK

457

Component-Based Reuse in Systems Analysis and Design: An Exploratory Study

Zheying Zhang
University of Jyväskylä, Finland

473

ICT Investments Evaluation in Nonprofit Organisations

Renata Paola Dameri
Facoltà di Economia, Università di Genova, Italy

487

Narratives: The Missing Link in Information Systems

Jonas Hedman1 and Andreas Borell2
1
School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden, 2Tetra Pak Global IM, Sweden

497

A Structurational Perspective on Technology: An Evaluation of why the same Technical Solution is Adopted Differently Across an Organisation

Arild Jansen1 and Terje Nes2
1
SITAS, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway 2The National Archives of Norway

505

IT Governance Disclosure of Web100 Companies

Gail Ridley and Qiang Liu
School of Information Systems, University of Tasmania, Australia

515

The Impact of Information Technology Investments and Cost Management Systems on Stock Price Reaction

Narcyz Roztocki1 and Heinz Roland Weistroffer2
1
School of Business, State University of New York at New Paltz,USA, 2School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

525

ROI Doesn’t Matter: Insights in the True Business Value of IT

A.J. Gilbert Silvius
Utrecht University of Professional Education, The Netherlands

531

A Global View of Software Economics: Foundations and Problems

Claudine Toffolon1,2 and Salem Dakhli2
1
Littoral University, LIL, Calais, France, 2Paris-Dauphine University, CERIA, France