IS PM Paper
Application of Project Management in IS Deployment
IS deployment and project management based upon case studies:
“Imperative” IS Development
Cedars-Sinai Doctors Cling to Pen and Paper
Abstract
It has been proven through industry research that successful IS project implementation and deployment consists of measurable project performance factors that have wide-spread impact on an organizations business goals and IS investment objectives. Taking a holistic approach to the application of effective and proven project management principles can ensure success to entirety and not just from a fragmented perspective.
IMPERATIVE IS DEVELOPMENT – CASE STUDY FINDINGS
The theories and models for success of project management has emerged into one of the most debatable topics discussed amongst project management experts and interest groups. As the diversity of project management theories are applied across a wide-range of industries, IS development is a common project that provides insight into the successes and failures directed related to the application of project management principles. In the case study, “How an “Imperative” IS Development was Saved from a Failing Course of Action” the Factors Approach, a methodology once commonly used by project management researchers to identify influential factors of success and failure within a project was replaced by the analytical evaluation of success and failure of internet based IS project from the context of organizational culture and influence thereof.
According to the case study, from a project management perspective, organizational culture drives the people and operational syntax to the extent of developing baselines for workforce efficiency, organizational structure, hierarchal power, change, and flow of information and knowledge. Furthermore, organizational culture is stated to have played an integral role in the success of an IS project for which failure loomed. The objectives of
IS deployment and project management based upon case studies:
“Imperative” IS Development
Cedars-Sinai Doctors Cling to Pen and Paper
Abstract
It has been proven through industry research that successful IS project implementation and deployment consists of measurable project performance factors that have wide-spread impact on an organizations business goals and IS investment objectives. Taking a holistic approach to the application of effective and proven project management principles can ensure success to entirety and not just from a fragmented perspective.
IMPERATIVE IS DEVELOPMENT – CASE STUDY FINDINGS
The theories and models for success of project management has emerged into one of the most debatable topics discussed amongst project management experts and interest groups. As the diversity of project management theories are applied across a wide-range of industries, IS development is a common project that provides insight into the successes and failures directed related to the application of project management principles. In the case study, “How an “Imperative” IS Development was Saved from a Failing Course of Action” the Factors Approach, a methodology once commonly used by project management researchers to identify influential factors of success and failure within a project was replaced by the analytical evaluation of success and failure of internet based IS project from the context of organizational culture and influence thereof.
According to the case study, from a project management perspective, organizational culture drives the people and operational syntax to the extent of developing baselines for workforce efficiency, organizational structure, hierarchal power, change, and flow of information and knowledge. Furthermore, organizational culture is stated to have played an integral role in the success of an IS project for which failure loomed. The objectives of
References: Brown, C., DeHayes, D. W., Hoffer, J. A., Martin, E. W., & Perkins, W. C. (2012). Managing Information Technology. New Jersey: Pearson Education.