IT investment decision making: Usability of a normative model

Fons Wijnhoven; Vincent Poot; Hans Heerkens

IT investment decision making: Usability of a normative model

Fons Wijnhoven, Vincent Poot, Hans Heerkens

Industrial Engineering & Business Information Systems

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Abstract

This article analyzes the usability of a multi-criteria decision analysis based on a real options AHP (ROAHP) method for IT-investment decisions. The study presents ROAHP to Chief Information Officers (CIO’s) and collects their opinions on prerequisites for usability, strengths and weaknesses. To understand these opinions, the opinions are put in an organizational context by profiling their
organization’s strategic decision making process. The study concludes that CIO’s recognize the potential and need of ROAHP but that organizations need much investments in data collection and decision models to make this method useful for its purpose, i.e. increasing IT investment decision rationality. ROAHP lacks usability. Furthermore, this study recommends future research focus on the usability rather than the validity of the method.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings 8th Annual Conference of the European Decision Science Institute
Place of Publication	Grenada
Publisher	European Decision Sciences Institute
Number of pages	26
Publication status	Published - May 2017
Event	8th Annual Conference of the European Decision Sciences Institute - Hotel Abades Nevada Palace, Granada, Spain Duration: 29 May 2017 → 1 Jun 2017 Conference number: 8th https://grxworkshop-en.congressus.es/edsi2017

Conference

Conference	8th Annual Conference of the European Decision Sciences Institute
Abbreviated title	EDSI 2017
Country	Spain
City	Granada
Period	29/05/17 → 1/06/17
Internet address	https://grxworkshop-en.congressus.es/edsi2017

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