IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/eurman/v10y1992i2p220-229.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

It evaluation: Managing the catch 22

Author

Listed:
  • Will cocks, Leslie

Abstract

The author's 'Catch-22' refers to the situation in which companies find, for competitive reasons, that they must invest in Information Technology (IT), but the economics do not justify it, and current evaluation techniques are not reliable enough to assess the investment. With the use of case studies, Leslie Willcocks looks at techniques of relating IT investment to organisational/business needs. He also looks at how organisations go about IT feasibility evaluation and finds a discouraging picture: three nontraditional techniques which could be used are discussed. Finally, he considers post-feasibility stage evaluation and suggests guidelines.

Suggested Citation

  • Will cocks, Leslie, 1992. "It evaluation: Managing the catch 22," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 10(2), pages 220-229, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:eurman:v:10:y:1992:i:2:p:220-229
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/026323739290072C
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Tzu-Chuan Chou & Robert Dyson & Philip L. Powell, 2000. "Managing Strategic IT Investment Decisions: From IT Investment Intensity to Effectiveness," Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ), IGI Global, vol. 13(4), pages 34-43, October.
    2. Booth, Marilyn E. & Philip, George, 1998. "Technology, competencies, and competitiveness: The case for reconfigurable and flexible strategies," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 41(1), pages 29-40, January.
    3. António Guerreiro & Gertrudes Saúde Guerreiro, 2016. "Impact of Information Technology Investments on Firm Productivity in Peripherals Countries: The Case of Portugal," International Journal of Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, International Journal of Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, vol. 6(2), pages 1108-1108.
    4. Gunasekaran, A. & Ngai, E.W.T. & McGaughey, R.E., 2006. "Information technology and systems justification: A review for research and applications," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 173(3), pages 957-983, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:eurman:v:10:y:1992:i:2:p:220-229. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/115/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.