Communication, Collaboration and Teamwork are Increasingly Important for the Successful Completion of Information Systems Projects.
Communication, Collaboration and Teamwork are Increasingly Important for the Successful Completion of Information Systems Projects.
Abstract: By analyzing previous era the information systems projects in this century are more complex, uncertain and fast moving day by day around the word, with major advances in technology, the phenomenon of the information age, diversity of services and modest ways of business operations. For a number of decades information system projects have a high level of failure rate (about 60% - 80%) and the truly ‘successful’ projects are relative rare. There are number of contributing aspects that influence the efficiency and effectiveness of the information systems projects. The main scope of this paper is to analyse, examine and review some of the contributing factors and to highlight the significance of how teamwork, collaboration and communication are increasingly important to influence the successfulness of project outcome.
Keywords: Failure factors; Information System Projects; Management; Teamwork; Collaboration; Communication.
INTRODUCTION
As we are living in the very fast moving environment and the pressure of information system projects is increasing, where organisations have to fallow all the driving forces that lead to change and different ways of creating business process to sustain on the competitive advantage. There are many internal and external factors and risks that play an essential part of the information system projects, such as new types of rivals, new information technology and increase in social media, globalisation and fragmentation of markets, the development of knowledge economies, new e-business mechanisms, the availability of investment capital, economic uncertainty and customer’s needs, change in the political and social landscape.
Many organisations had to redesign their business systems to improve their efficiency and effectiveness, to reform their strategic project planning and reinvent new and more
Abstract: By analyzing previous era the information systems projects in this century are more complex, uncertain and fast moving day by day around the word, with major advances in technology, the phenomenon of the information age, diversity of services and modest ways of business operations. For a number of decades information system projects have a high level of failure rate (about 60% - 80%) and the truly ‘successful’ projects are relative rare. There are number of contributing aspects that influence the efficiency and effectiveness of the information systems projects. The main scope of this paper is to analyse, examine and review some of the contributing factors and to highlight the significance of how teamwork, collaboration and communication are increasingly important to influence the successfulness of project outcome.
Keywords: Failure factors; Information System Projects; Management; Teamwork; Collaboration; Communication.
INTRODUCTION
As we are living in the very fast moving environment and the pressure of information system projects is increasing, where organisations have to fallow all the driving forces that lead to change and different ways of creating business process to sustain on the competitive advantage. There are many internal and external factors and risks that play an essential part of the information system projects, such as new types of rivals, new information technology and increase in social media, globalisation and fragmentation of markets, the development of knowledge economies, new e-business mechanisms, the availability of investment capital, economic uncertainty and customer’s needs, change in the political and social landscape.
Many organisations had to redesign their business systems to improve their efficiency and effectiveness, to reform their strategic project planning and reinvent new and more
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