Theorizing IT Project Success

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International Journal of Information Technology Project Management Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.4018/ijitpm.2020010105

H. Kivijärvi

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Abstract

This study theorizes IT project success by integrating the project level drivers to the IT, business, and environment level enablers. An attempt is made to delve into underlying structures below the project level in order to understand the systemic reasons behind a particular success or failure. In this journey we rely on the general systems theory and the key concepts like elements, state, properties, process, hierarchy, and environment. It is shown that IT projects can be straightly abstracted by the general system principles. Within the systemic framework, potential factors behind the success of the IT projects are identified, the relationships between the factors are hypothesized and then the hypotheses are integrated into a hierarchical research model. Finally, the hypotheses and the research model are empirically evaluated. According to the results it was confirmed that all levels considered in the research model have significant impacts on the success of an IT project. Similarly, a significant improvement in IT project management in terms of project success can be obtained by improving the quality of involved factors. A favorable financial situation, highly-perceived importance of IT, sound business – IT alignment, and good IT and IT project competencies have remarkably significant positive impacts on the success of IT projects.

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IT项目成功理论化

本研究通过将项目级驱动程序集成到IT、业务和环境级驱动程序，从而将IT项目的成功理论化。尝试深入到项目级别以下的底层结构，以便了解特定成功或失败背后的系统原因。在这个过程中，我们依赖于一般系统理论和关键概念，如元素、状态、属性、过程、层次结构和环境。结果表明，It项目可以用一般的系统原理直接抽象出来。在系统框架内，识别IT项目成功背后的潜在因素，假设因素之间的关系，然后将假设整合到一个分层研究模型中。最后，对假设和研究模型进行了实证检验。根据结果证实，研究模型中考虑的各个层面对it项目的成功都有显著的影响。同样，就项目成功而言，IT项目管理的重大改进可以通过提高相关因素的质量来获得。良好的财务状况、对IT的高度重视、良好的业务- IT一致性以及良好的IT和IT项目能力对IT项目的成功具有显著的积极影响。

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International Journal of Information Technology Project Management MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

1.70

自引率

25.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： The mission of International Journal of Information Technology Project Management (IJITPM) is to provide a forum for practitioners and researchers from both public and private sectors of project management professionals, along with information systems researchers, software developers and vendors, to contribute and to circulate ground-breaking work, and to shape future directions for research, as well as to help project leaders and managers apply various advanced techniques in information systems. It encourages discussions on how the various information systems can improve project management as well as how advances in project management can affect the growth of information systems.