Management Issues

Management Issues

Management Issues

Introduction

Information systems (IS) agencies face numerous trials in today's quickly altering environment. One set about to comprehending these trials is to review IS managers to extract what they address are key issues. According to Niederman, Brancheau and Wetherbe (1991), the prime reason of such investigations is to work out the IS management issues expected to be most significant over the next 3-5 years and therefore most warranting of time and asset investment.

This paper inserts the idea of key issues and reconsiders key issues studies round the world. It makes propositions from these investigations ahead into the 21st 100 years, and it talks about methodological alternatives for future key issues studies.

The idea of key issues

Key issues in IS management may be characterised as the set of major trials opposite IS managers over the next 3-5 years. These trials warrant most assets, time and vigilance by IS management. Studies of key issues in IS management are helpful to performing IS managers to recognise breaches and main concerns in evaluation with other IS managers in the identical homeland and round the world. IS vendors, expert societies, advisors, teachers, and investigators require to be cognizant of IS executives' key anxieties to assist their markets competently (Niederman et al., 1991, p. 476):

Vendors can use this information to evolve and market goods and services. Professional societies can use this information to design seminars and seminars as well as disseminate information through their publications. Consultants can use this information to assist accelerate the move of technology and management skills amidst their clients. Educators can use this information to evolve programs and location their graduates. Finally, investigators can use this information to direct their investigation and advance comprehending of critical managerial issues. Thus, the whole IS community desires to be cognizant of the issues that are judged to be of critical anxiety by its premier practitioners.

Review of key issues studies

Over the past two decades, the US Society for information management (SIM) has occassionally reviewed its constituents to work out the most critical issues in IS management (Brancheau, Janz & Wetherbe, 1996). The diverse SIM investigations have had a important leverage on key issues studies in other nations (e.g., Dekleva & Zupancic, 1996; Wang, 1994). IS key issues studies have been undertook in Australia 1993, Canada 1995, Costa Rica 1997, Estonia 1993, Europe 1993, Guatemala 1997, the Gulf Cooperation Council 1992, Hong Kong 1993, India 1992, Indonesia 1996, Poland 1994, the Republic of China (Taiwan) 1990, Slovenia 1993, South Korea 1995, and the United Kingdom 1993, and a relative investigates of these has been described ( Watson, Kelly, Galliers & Brancheau, 1997). A Web-site (http://www.cba.uga.edu/iris/) has been established to report minutia of the diverse studies.

The outcomes of two latest key issues in IS management studies are now considered. The first study recorded in Table 1 is the most latest US SIM study (Brancheau et al., 1996), while the second study recorded in Table 2 is the outcome of an worldwide evaluation of some key ...