The role of process standardization in achieving IT business value

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Beimborn, Daniel ^a   Joachim, Nils ^a   Gleisner, Fabian ^b,c   Hackethal, Andreas ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b E Finance Lab Frankfurt   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVING IT; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS VALUES; GERMANY; INTERACTION EFFECTS; POSITIVE EFFECTS; PROCESSING TIME;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SALES; STANDARDIZATION;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 78650760462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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