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The article "Navigating the Shadows: A Comprehensive Framework for Anticipating, Identifying, and Managing Shadow IT" discusses the challenges and risks associated with shadow IT, unauthorized IT solutions used by employees. It highlights the need for a management framework that includes proactive anticipation strategies, effective identification processes, and adaptive management approaches. The article emphasizes the importance of balancing control with flexibility to harness the innovative potential of shadow IT while mitigating risks. Case studies from various industries demonstrate the effectiveness of this holistic framework in managing shadow IT and fostering innovation. [Extracted from the article]

As organizations continue to heavily invest in Information Technology (IT), effective information technology governance is critical to make sure that IT spending leads to the fulfilment of organizational goals and delivery of expected value. The purpose of this study is to determine IT governance drivers in public healthcare in South Africa. The study applied exploratory mixed methods research, through semi-structured interviews and an online survey questionnaire with selected IT and business decision-makers. Data were analyzed through thematic data analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and correlation analysis. Through the lenses of the technology organization environment (TOE) framework, findings indicate that organizations are driven by internal and external context-based governance imperatives, which manifest as trigger events and pain points, necessitating new or changed IT governance policies. The implication is that organizations require specifically tailored IT governance strategies that respond to their specific governance needs. The study calls for policymakers and implementers to be conscious of their IT problem context. In the absence of IT governance drivers' contextualization, organizations may fail to tailor IT governance initiatives, and risk investing in costly IT governance practices that do not address their specific needs. The study contributes to reflective and pragmatic IT governance approaches in developing economies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Family firm behaviour can be a potential root of innovation in family firms. Building on the theoretical perspectives of socioemotional wealth and narcissistic organisational identification, we introduce a novel concept and new measure for family firm narcissism (FFN). We suggest that FFN influences family firms' innovation orientation (i.e., strategic innovativeness) and realised innovation outcome (i.e., digital inventiveness). Additionally, we assume that industry IT intensity, as an indicator of environmental pressure regarding digital transformation, moderates these relationships. To test the hypotheses, we investigated a longitudinal cross-industry sample, comprising 1,302 firm-year observations of S&P 500 family firms and analysed it with regression models. The results indicate that FFN is positively related to strategic innovativeness and negatively related to digital inventiveness. We further find that industry IT spending intensity amplifies both linkages. Our study contributes to the discussion on the family innovation agenda by (1) introducing the new concept and measure for FFN and (2) underlining its controversial impact and effectiveness on two central manifestations of innovation under the boundary conditions of digital transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates ex-ante factors influencing international bank acquisition of FinTech companies from 2010–2018. Using hand-collected data, we show that bank boards with a larger female presence as well as those that have CEOs with longer tenure are more likely to pursue FinTech acquisitions. The financial performance also matters as banks with greater capital strength and liquidity are more likely to be acquirers. In line with prior expectations, banks with higher IT spending, suggesting greater in-house development of digital solutions, are less likely to target FinTech acquisitions. In addition, younger CEOs and banks with lower IT spending are also found to be more likely to make multiple FinTech acquisitions. The nationality diversity in the boardroom matters for cross-border bank-FinTech deals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the challenges of setting an information security budget in the face of increasing cybercrime costs. Topics discussed include common budgeting approaches (compliance-first, industry-average, and naïve), the difficulty in proving the efficacy of security measures, and the proposal of a risk-first approach that evaluates the risk associated with each threat to inform budget decisions.

The article focuses on the need for resilient cybersecurity measures, especially in the South African public sector, where data & systems are increasingly targeted by cybercriminals. It discusses rising cyber threats; the importance of a multi-layered defense; key cybersecurity measures that public sector organizations should implement to protect themselves effectively; and the imperative of robust cybersecurity in the digital age to safeguard sensitive data, systems & critical infrastructure.

Commercial business software represents a large part of the IT spending of organizations. Whilst the cost of software operations and licenses is relatively easy to determine, organizations find it difficult to measure the benefits that are gained from providing the software to their employees. This is especially problematic for software that is of supportive nature and does not support key business processes as in the case of Enterprise Collaboration Systems (ECS). To address this problem, we demonstrate and evaluate Benefits Scorecards (BSC), a newly developed method for measuring and long-term monitoring of benefits gained from collaboration technology. Due to its innovative nature, the application of BSC has not been widely evaluated in practice yet. We extracted content and usage data from an operational large-scale ECS with more than 5.000 users, developed KPIs using the BSC method and visualized these KPIs in MS PowerBI dashboards. The research presented in this paper is an important step in the successful evaluation of the Benefits Scorecards method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: In the era of the digital economy, organizations are under much pressure to justify their information technology (IT) spending on digital transformation. Some organizations have thus implemented IT chargeback, an IT governance (ITG) mechanism, to clarify and allocate IT costs among various business units. While practitioners have stressed the importance of IT chargeback, there has been little theoretical effort that investigates its strategic effects and boundary conditions. Design/methodology/approach: Synthesizing the ITG literature and the resource-based view (RBV), the authors develop a research model to examine if IT chargeback affects IT–business strategic alignment and, in turn, organizational performance and how human IT resources strengthen the impacts of IT chargeback. The authors designed a survey to collect data from 103 firms and tested the model using partial least squares (PLS). Findings: The authors found that IT chargeback promoted strategic alignment and then organizational performance only for firms with business-competent chief information officers (CIOs), rather than IT-competent business executives. Originality/value: This study enriches the ITG literature by exploring the strategic value of an IT cost governance mechanism (i.e. IT chargeback). This study further proposes and validates a measure of IT chargeback. Drawing on the RBV, this study quantitatively investigates the strategic impacts and boundary contingencies of IT chargeback. This study also advances the CIO literature by identifying the strategic leading role, instead of the traditional supporting role, of CIOs in modern organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to Gartner's 2024 IT spending forecast, global IT spending is expected to grow by 8% to $5.06 trillion this year, with data center systems and software driving the most growth. The amount of money spent on data center services is predicted to increase by 10% to $260 billion. Many companies plan to invest in generative artificial intelligence products and services, which will require greater spending on data centers. Additionally, a recent study suggests that the healthcare supply chain management market is expected to reach $8.8 billion by 2034, as medical organizations prioritize the integration of key supply chain management solutions. [Extracted from the article]

Objective: In this study, we explored Internet use-associated psychosocial behavior problems in relationship to adolescents' subjective health complaints and healthy lifestyle habits. Methods: A cross-sectional sample of Latvian adolescents (N = 570, age range 11-19 years) completed a survey. Problematic Internet use (PIU) was assessed by the Problematic and Risky Internet Use Screening Scale (PRIUSS) that measures social impairment, emotional impairment, and risky/impulsive Internet use. Subjective health complaints assessed were somatic complaints and psychological complaints. Healthy lifestyle behaviors assessed were daily physical activity, time spent using information technologies (IT), eating habits, and sleep duration. Results: We found that 27.02 % (N = 154) of the participants scored at risk for PIU with significantly higher PIU mean scores in 15-16-year-old girls (p <.05). Also, 15-16-year-old girls reported significantly higher prevalence of subjective health symptoms than boys and girls in other age groups (p < .05). There were statistically significant associations between PIU-related psychosocial behaviors and subjective health complaints and limited physical activity (p < .01). Conclusions: PIU behaviors, subjective health complaints and lack healthy lifestyles were common in adolescents in this study with a significantly high prevalence in 15-16-year-old girls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Over the past 15 years, productivity growth in advanced economies has significantly slowed, giving rise to the productivity paradox of the New Digital Economy – that is, the notion of increased business spending on information and communication technology assets and digital services without a noticeable increase in productivity. We argue that time lags are the most important reason for the slow emergence of the productivity effects from digital transformation. This paper provides evidence that underneath the slowing productivity growth rates at the macro level, signs of structural improvements can be detected. In the United States most of the positive contribution to productivity growth is coming from the digital producing sector. The Euro Area and the United Kingdom show larger productivity contributions from the most intensive digital-using sectors, although the United Kingdom also had a fairly large number of less intensive digital-using industries which showed productivity declines. We also find that increases in innovation competencies of the workforce are concentrated in industries showing faster growth in labor productivity, even though more research is needed to identify causality. Finally, we speculate that as the recovery from the COVID-19 recession gets underway the potential for significant productivity gains from digital transformation in the medium term is larger than during the past 15 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to examine the motivational factors that direct individuals to computer games in the process of evaluating leisure activities. The study is designed in descriptive and relational survey models, which are among the quantitative research patterns. A total of 1677 individuals participated in the study. A personal information form and the Computer Gaming Motivation Scale were used. An independent sample t-test, one-way analysis of variance, and Pearson correlation test were used to analyze the data. According to the results, there were significant differences in the concentration, entertainment, escape, learning, and socialization sub-dimensions of the participants in favor of the groups playing in Internet cafes. The findings indicate that when more time is spent with information and communication technologies, there is a decrease in concentration and an increase in entertainment and escape. Furthermore, when the relationship between the sub-dimensions of the scale was examined, positively moderate and high correlations were found among concentration, entertainment, escape, learning, and socialization. As a result, rapid technological changes and developments provide many opportunities for individuals. It is thought that individuals' busy work lives and monotonous daily routines cause them to prefer easily accessible activities during their leisure time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: The present research has a significant value for the theory of and research in health informatics and clinical practice. The aim of the article was to investigate how important is knowledge richness and linkage as knowledge quality for the information technology system success decomposing existing electronic Prescription systems in the context of comparison regarding the building process. Methods: The four most actively used Lithuanian electronic Prescription modules have been selected for the research. To achieve the purpose, decomposition of electronic Prescription processes have been carried out to assess relations between knowledge richness and richness adopted in the electronic Prescription module and knowledge usability. The method of heuristic assessment and cognitive walkthroughs was used. The heuristic method is used for the evaluation of an information system by a specialist in the field or by qualified members of the information system development team. Results: A completely developed electronic Prescription system functioning in the entire state has been implemented only in several European countries and Finland is one of the best examples. Despite the fact that several information systems have been developed in Lithuania that prescribes electronic Prescription with 40 million Euros spent on information technology systems, still, 15% of all prescriptions are written on paper in Lithuania. Conclusions: A dynamic selection rule could be apply to address the issue of electronic Prescription use. Such analysis can help the healthcare administrators and professionals to evaluate the potential of enabling information technology and the opportunity it created to rethink or reengineer the e. Prescription process and the associated activities based on the enabling information technology capability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article present news briefs related to Airport Council International (ACI) and airports. It discusses the results of the 2022 Airport IT Insights Survey, revealing that airports are increasing their investment in technology to digitalize operations and enhance the passenger experience; key areas of investment include self-service options, biometrics and cloud services; emphasis on innovation strategies and partnerships with external stakeholders to drive digital transformation.

Pseudo-tested methods are defined as follows: they are covered by the test suite, yet no test case fails when the method body is removed, i.e., when all the effects of this method are suppressed. This intriguing concept was coined in 2016, by Niedermayr and colleagues, who showed that such methods are systematically present, even in well-tested projects with high statement coverage. This work presents a novel analysis of pseudo-tested methods. First, we run a replication of Niedermayr's study with 28K+ methods, enhancing its external validity thanks to the use of new tools and new study subjects. Second, we perform a systematic characterization of these methods, both quantitatively and qualitatively with an extensive manual analysis of 101 pseudo-tested methods. The first part of the study confirms Niedermayr's results: pseudo-tested methods exist in all our subjects. Our in-depth characterization of pseudo-tested methods leads to two key insights: pseudo-tested methods are significantly less tested than the other methods; yet, for most of them, the developers would not pay the testing price to fix this situation. This calls for future work on targeted test generation to specify those pseudo-tested methods without spending developer time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Organizational- and departmental-level budgeting suffer from various shortcomings, such as asymmetric ratcheting. In this regard, we theorize, and propose, budgeting at the transaction-cycle level for effective budget designs. The transaction-cycle level budget requires management justification for resource assignment to business processes, often spanning multiple departments. The transaction-cycle typology consists of five cycles: production, expenditure, financial, revenue, and human-resources. In order to distinguish among transaction cycles, we use their relative positions within the value chain and technology content in their business processes. As a proof-of-concept, we develop theoretical arguments for asymmetric ratcheting in operating budgets at the transaction-cycle level in hospitals, and empirically examine this phenomenon using longitudinal archival data. Our hypotheses examine budgetary responses to overspending and underspending variances in operating budgets for fixed and variable costs. Our findings suggest that a transaction cycle's position in the value chain and its technology content play a role in determining asymmetric ratcheting during budgeting. We discuss our contributions from the perspectives of theory and practice of accounting, budgeting, and accounting information systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the rise of permanent hybrid work models with 74 percent of U.S. organizations adopting or planning to adopt them, while 44 percent of U.S. employees express a preference for hybrid work, leading to increased IT spending for remote and hybrid setups.

According to a Forbes’ report published in 2015, cloud-based security spending is expected to increase by 42%. According to another research, the IT security expenditure had increased to 79.1% by 2015, showing an increase of more than 10% each year. International Data Corporation (IDC) in 2011 showed that 74.6% of enterprise customers ranked security as a major challenge. This paper summarizes a number of peer-reviewed articles on security threats in cloud computing and the preventive methods. The objective of our research is to understand the cloud components, security issues, and risks, along with emerging solutions that may potentially mitigate the vulnerabilities in the cloud. It is a commonly accepted fact that since 2008, cloud is a viable hosting platform; however, the perception with respect to security in the cloud is that it needs significant improvements to realise higher rates of adaption in the enterprise scale. As identified by another research, many of the issues confronting the cloud computing need to be resolved urgently. The industry has made significant advances in combatting threats to cloud computing, but there is more to be done to achieve a level of maturity that currently exists with traditional/on-premise hosting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The primary objective of this study is to examine the influence of information technology (IT) on organizational coordination costs using the theoretical lens of transaction cost economics. In doing so, the study addresses the following research questions: Does IT matter? How and why does IT matter to firms? How does coordination cost mediate the relationship between IT spending and firm productivity, and how does it influence IT spending and firm size when considering the information product industries (IPI) and the physical product industries (PPI)? To address these research questions, we use IT spending, coordination costs, firm size, and firm productivity with firm-level data, using Information Week and the Compustat data set in the United States, from 2011 to 2013. A SmartPLS path analysis was used to test the research hypotheses. The results show that use of the firm’s IT spending decreases coordination costs. Likewise, the results show that IT spending also decreases firm size. On the other hand, the results also show that IT spending does not significantly improve a firm’s productivity. Furthermore, the results indicate strong evidence that coordination costs act as a mediator between IT spending and firm size in IPI firms. Coordination costs also mediate the relationship between IT spending and firm productivity in IPI firms. Overall, this study sheds light on the importance of the impact of IT on reducing coordination costs as well as on firm size and firm productivity. This must be especially considered in regard to interorganizational coordination. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Scharff-technique is used for eliciting information from human sources. At the very core of the technique is the "illusion of knowing it all" tactic, which aims to inflate a source's perception of how much knowledge an interviewer holds about the event to be discussed. For the current study, we mapped the effects following two different ways of introducing this particular tactic; a traditional way of implementation where the interviewer explicitly states that s/he already knows most of the important information (the traditional condition), and a new way of implementation where the interviewer just starts to present the information that s/he holds (the just start condition). The two versions were compared in two separate experiments. In Experiment 1 (N = 60), we measured the participants' perceptions of the interviewer's knowledge, and in Experiment 2 (N = 60), the participants' perceptions of the interviewer's knowledge gaps. We found that participants in the just start condition (a) believed the interviewer had more knowledge (Experiment 1), and (b) searched less actively for gaps in the interviewer's knowledge (Experiment 2), compared to the traditional condition. We will discuss the current findings and how sources test and perceive the knowledge his or her interviewer possesses within a framework of social hypothesis testing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the impact of undertaking R&D, a measure of the enhancement of dynamic capabilities, on firms' overseas earnings patterns, for a panel of several thousand Indian firms, for the period from 1991–92 to 2005–06. The results show that undertaking R&D spending is associated with a significant rise in firms' average overseas earnings levels. These results point to the need for materially enhancing the very low levels of R&D undertaken by firms in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the same time, China's military has taken full legal advantage, and allegedly sometimes has illegally appropriated, these available technologies for their own military needs. This is in line with commercial practice as well, in that most business units inside commercial organizations also struggle to embrace new and disruptive technology, whenever that technology does not align with the prevailing business model of the business unit. Commercial spending on new information technologies in the commercial sector rivalled and then, accelerated well past military spending on these technologies. [Extracted from the article]

Telecommunication development has experienced significant growth since the 1990s. Despite the high perceived value of information technology (IT), empirical studies have generally reported mixed results when examining the relationship between information technology spending and productivity. Based on contingency theory, we hypothesize that firm characteristics affect how investment in telecommunication impacts labour productivity. This study extends recent advances in IT value literature by studying what types of firms are in a better position to benefit from telecommunication investment. In particular, this study examines whether and how telecommunication spending impacts labour and administrative productivity differently in firms with different size and industry type. The empirical evidence reveals that the value of telecommunication spending is contingent upon firm characteristics such as industry type. Empirical results not only reveal a significantly positive relationship between telecommunication spending and labour or administrative productivity, but also uncover that durable-goods industry firms and larger firms can realize higher business value from telecommunication investment in improved employee productivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examine the interrelationships between information technology spending, CEO equity compensation incentives, and firm value. We present two related pieces of evidence. First, we find that CEO equity incentives are associated with IT spending, suggesting that CEOs with higher incentives are more likely to invest in a risky asset such as IT. Second, we find that the association between IT spending and business value is stronger for firms that grant CEOs higher equity incentives. Our study contributes to the CEO compensation and IT governance literatures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study on student preferences for technology fee spending, based on Internet-based surveys of university students in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Oklahoma State University. Topics include departmental technology versus classroom multi-media technology spending; levels of student awareness of how technology fees are used; student use of computer labs; and the preferences of students who own computers.

The article presents a study done in 2011 at Ambrose Alli University in Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria which looks at the impact that information and communication technology (ICT) has had on the libraries at universities in Nigeria. It discusses the modes of access to information, including the internet, electronic databases, and CD-ROMs, as being central to the success of modernizing information services at academic libraries. It also focuses on problems which libraries face in acquiring ICT such as lack of funding for hardware and software, lack of electricity or generators, and a lack of technical skills.

The article presents a 2011 study about the challenges faced in providing information services to people in Nigeria in the 21st century. It states that, in order for Nigeria to reach its goal of being among the world's largest economies by 2020, access to information is the most important factor, and that library and information services are necessary for this to happen. It focuses on lack of information and technology (ICT) equipment, lack of funds for libraries and their staff, and lack of knowledge to exploit the systems.

The article discusses the significance for businesses of developing and information technology (IT) strategy and aligning it with their business development plan. Topics covered include how to develop an IT that optimizes return on that investment, the value of IT strategy with growth plans and points that need to be included in an IT strategy.

The article lists several issues to be published in the journal on topics including capacity investment and product line decisions, demand functions in decision making and information technology (IT) security spending.

The article offers information on several reports related to business and government organization. Topics include increase in expenditure of Indian government on information technology (IT) products and services by the end of 2016, the investment of China in sport like football academies, and U.S. economic outlook of the organization International Monetary Fund (IMF) for 2016.

The article offers information on bring your own device and the issue of cloud security. Topics discussed include synchronization of devices with cloud computing; spending on information technology by companies; and understanding the importance of cloud security and enabling users to maintain security.