Business Intelligence Maturity: The Economic Transitional Context Within Slovenia

Lukman, Tomaž; Hackney, Ray; Popovič, Aleš; Jaklič, Jurij; Irani, Zahir

doi:10.1080/10580530.2011.585583

Cited by 36 publications

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“…This confirms the previous research findings suggesting that companies in transition economies were in the first wave of ES adoption (e.g. Lukman et al, 2011) whereas companies from developed economies experienced second or even third wave of ES adoption (Shanks et al, 2003;Stein and Hawking, 2003).…”

Section: Similarities and Differences Between Transition And Developesupporting

confidence: 81%

Impediments to Enterprise System Implementation over the System Lifecycle: Contrasting Transition and Developed Economies

Soja

Paliwoda‐Pękosz

2013

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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The main goal of this study is to investigate similarities and differences between impediments to enterprise system (ES) implementation in transition and developed economies. The adopted research approach incorporates the system lifecycle and seeks to examine how the difficulties change across the lifecycle phases. The research builds on the opinions of ES practitioners from Poland, a transition economy from Central and Eastern Europe. The main findings illustrate that difficulties experienced by ES adoptions in developed economies seem to concentrate on the project phase where implementation activities are carried out whereas in Polish companies problems tend to span through all the lifecycle phases. The results also suggest that in transition economies practitioners have to deal mostly with system-related issues across the whole lifecycle. In developed economies, on the contrary, the shift from system-related to business-related problems throughout the system lifecycle is observed.

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Section: Similarities and Differences Between Transition And Developesupporting

confidence: 81%

Impediments to Enterprise System Implementation over the System Lifecycle: Contrasting Transition and Developed Economies

Soja

Paliwoda‐Pękosz

2013

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…Transition economies suffer from the shortage of skilled ICT professionals (Lukman et al, 2011;Roztocki & Weistroffer, 2011;Samoilenko & Ngwenyama, 2011), which in turn inhibits the potential macroeconomic impact of ICT investments (Samoilenko & Ngwenyama, 2011). Software companies may compensate for this lack of knowledge by outsourcing less-competitive operations in order to gain a comparative advantage (Munch & Skaksen, 2009;Venkatesan, 1992).…”

Section: Gsd In Transition Economiesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Additionally, transition economies face some unique issues due to their characteristics. A persistent scarcity of resources is a key issue to ICT use in transition economies (Lukman et al, 2011;Roztocki & Weistroffer, 2011). Additionally, scarce resources make it difficult to employ costly GSD best practices, such as face-to-face meetings and liaisons between development sites.…”

Section: Gsd In Transition Economiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Outsourcing as an Economic Development Tool in Transition Economies: Scattered Global Software Development

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Trkman

Kumer

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Information Technology for Development

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In transition economies, information and communication technology (ICT) is vital for successful companies and may compensate for an underdeveloped infrastructure and lack of resources. The development of complex ICT systems requires skilled ICT professionals who are often difficult to acquire. In this paper, we address this specific issue of transition economies and propose a novel global software development approach that aims to compensate for the lack of skilled ICT professionals by outsourcing independent development tasks globally to remote developers. The proposed approach was empirically tested in a pilot study at three different locations at University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. The test demonstrated the feasibility of the approach and indicated that task specification quality and developer skills are important success factors. The findings of the pilot study are primarily relevant for software development companies in transition economies even though the approach may also be applicable in other settings where lack of locally accessible skilled ICT professionals is present.

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“…In particular, it may be connected with the heritage of the past communist epoch which resulted in peoples' negative attitudes towards authority and generally a low level of trust in both interpersonal and interinstitutional relationships [34]. In general, people-related issues connected with knowledge, education, skills and attitudes appear critical in ES adoptions in transition economies [40,61,67]. Nevertheless, we should bear in mind that, as illustrated in a study by Janson et al [29], successful companies in transition economies are able to overcome the heritage of the socialist past and may foster the development of a learning organization.…”

Section: Explaining the Most Important Barriers In Transition Economiesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Organizational problems during the ES adoption run might be explained by the lower level of employees' productivity, lack of organizational maturity and process management experience, which seem to be characteristic of transition economies (e.g., [26]). Also, lack of experience in managing complex organizational projects might be connected with the fact that ES systems are being adopted in the first wave in transition economies, while developed countries have already been in the second or third wave of ES adoption [40].…”

Section: Explaining the Most Important Barriers In Transition Economiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A stakeholder analysis of barriers to enterprise system adoption: the case of a transition economy

Soja

2015

Inf Technol Manag

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This paper examines barriers to the successful implementation of enterprise systems (ES) in a transition economy setting, i.e. an economy in transition from a communist style central planning to a free market system. Drawing from the experience of 184 Polish ES practitioners, barriers are identified, categorized, and subjected to stakeholder analysis. The findings are then examined in relation to issues reported by prior research conducted in developed countries. The main findings indicate clearly that the most critical barriers ES adopters experience in transition economies are connected with people and also emphasize the need to incorporate multiple stakeholder perspectives, both internal and external, in order to gain full insight into ES adoption. The paper ends with conclusions and recommendations for researchers and practitioners.

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Business Intelligence Maturity: The Economic Transitional Context Within Slovenia

Cited by 36 publications

References 21 publications

Impediments to Enterprise System Implementation over the System Lifecycle: Contrasting Transition and Developed Economies

Impediments to Enterprise System Implementation over the System Lifecycle: Contrasting Transition and Developed Economies

Outsourcing as an Economic Development Tool in Transition Economies: Scattered Global Software Development

A stakeholder analysis of barriers to enterprise system adoption: the case of a transition economy

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