A process oriented assessment of the IT infrastructure value: A proposal of an ontology based approach

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 21 LNBIP, Issue , 2009, Pages 13-24

  Brocke, Jan Vom ^a   Braccini, Alessio Maria ^b   Sonnenberg, Christian ^a   Ender, Elisabeth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN   (Liechtenstein)

^b LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c HILTI Befestigungstechnik AG

Author keywords

Business Value; IT costs evaluation; Ontology; Process Based IT Value assessment

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS VALUE; IT COSTS EVALUATION; IT IMPACT; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; ONTOLOGY-BASED; ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACTS; PROCESS BASED IT VALUE ASSESSMENT; PROCESS-ORIENTED; VALUE-BASED;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 66249144455     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01190-0_2     Document Type: Article

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