Evaluating Success in the Digitalized Thesis Management Process

Digitalization is relevant to all industries, and there are good reasons for it in education. While it is relatively easy to acquire a new information system, beneficial implementation and sustainable process improvements are more difficult to achieve. Here, we investigate how a digitalized thesis management process and a supporting information system have been adapted in a university and evaluate the success of the adaptation. The evaluation is based on data from a survey of thesis supervisors. The results show a high level of adaptation, indicating a good level of perceived usefulness, as well as a good level of perceived visual clarity and usability, indicating ease of use for the new information system. Also, the adaptation can be seen as successful, and the results provide confidence in the sustainability of the digitalized thesis management process. Based on this, we see usefulness and ease of use for this feasible approach to evaluating success in digitalization.