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Firm Size and Information Technology Investment Appraisal

Author : Elsie Khakasa Onsongo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Firm Size and Information Technology Investment Appraisal by : Elsie Khakasa Onsongo

Download or read book Firm Size and Information Technology Investment Appraisal written by Elsie Khakasa Onsongo and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information technology expenditure in banks consumes an ever increasing portion of operating costs and revenues. As organisations continue increasing their investment in IS, the process of evaluating potential Information Technology (IT) investments becomes an important activity for an organisation"s management. This study attempts to establish whether the choice of IT investment appraisal approaches is associated with the size of a firm using evidence from commercial banking institutions in Kenya. Results of the survey show that there is a correlation between choice of approach and firm size. Among the banking institutions in Kenya, medium-sized banks focus the most on both the strategic and analytical approaches to IT investment appraisal. Majority of small banks have adopted relatively simple economic techniques such as payback period and cost-benefit analysis, and they do not focus on the more sophisticated analytical and integrated approaches as much as the medium-sized and large banks. Finally, large banks have adopted all of the appraisal approaches explored in this study. The results of this study help to establish banking industry-wide benchmarks and best practices in IT investment evaluation, thereby assisting IT executives to make more informed decisions for future investments.

The Business Value of Computers

Author : Paul A. Strassmann
Publisher : Information Economics Press
ISBN 13 : 9780962041327
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (413 download)

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Book Synopsis The Business Value of Computers by : Paul A. Strassmann

Download or read book The Business Value of Computers written by Paul A. Strassmann and published by Information Economics Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book addresses the practical needs of executives responsible for planning, budgeting & justifying information technology expenditures. Written by the former chief information executive (1956-1978) & vice president of strategic planning (1978-1985), author of the widely acclaimed & translated INFORMATION PAYOFF - THE TRANSFORMATION OF WORK IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE (Free Press, 1985), lecturer & university professor. Reviews: "A New Bible for Management Information Systems. An eminently readable book made more so by a playful sense of humor" -Information Week-; "Strips away obfuscation that has concealed the real value of computers." (The Financial Post); "A true path to the Holy Grail of business value." (Computer Weekly); "Some surprising answers to familiar questions cast new light on investing profitably in computer hardware & software." (The Conference Board); "All those either transfixed or baffled by the powers & potential of computers would do well to heed Strassmann's advice." (Daily Telegraph); "Measuring managerial productivity is the key to knowing how to invest in information technology. Strassmann's new book sets out the results of his research in detail. His argument comes through clearly." (The Financial Times).

Investment Appraisal

Author : Uwe Götze
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540399690
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Investment Appraisal written by Uwe Götze and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-22 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a range of investment appraisal methods and models to help readers make good investment decisions. Each approach is thoroughly described, evaluated, and illustrated using examples, with its assumptions and limitations analyzed in terms of their implications for investment decision-making practice. Getting investment decisions right is crucial but due to a complex and dynamic business environment this remains a challenging management task.

Fundamentals of Investment Appraisal

Author : Martina Röhrich
Publisher : Oldenbourg Verlag
ISBN 13 : 348670009X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis Fundamentals of Investment Appraisal by : Martina Röhrich

Download or read book Fundamentals of Investment Appraisal written by Martina Röhrich and published by Oldenbourg Verlag. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to make sound investment decisions: This book is based on long-term experience with students, especially at the School of International Business of Bremen University of Applied Sciences. For a better understanding, a case study is constructed to illustrate all methods discussed. Written in an easily understood style it focuses on the reality of student life as well as of practitioners. The goal of the book is to pace a sure way through the variety of methods. Mathematical basics are specifically explained in detail. This book shows clearly why there are different methods in investment appraisal and on where to focus in a given situation. As all methods are introduced by the same case study, it is easy to compare and evaluate the results. The statements in the text are further consolidated by abstracts and evaluations of each of the methods. Exercises with extensive solutions will lead to the confidence which is necessary for an ease of handling the investment appraisal techniques and for a good preparation for students’ exams. German and international students at universities and other institutions of higher education will find this book an excellent systematic preparation for their exams. It is also directed toward members of the general public who need expert guidance in making professional investment decisions. Due to the increasing mobility of students and the internationalisation of many economic or business curricula, not only do German students tend to study more abroad, but also foreign students tend to study more in Germany. In German universities the number of courses in the English language is also increasing. That is why I have written this text in English. A companion volume in German, entitled ‘Grundlagen der Investitionsrechnung: Eine Darstellung anhand einer Fallstudie’ is also available. In both textbooks the pages are constructed identically. Using both textbooks simultaneously will help those students who still lack the necessary business vocabulary in the respective language to reasonably follow a class in English or German. This book clearly closes an existing gap in the literature. This is the first book in English about capital expenditure budgeting in the sense as it is usually taught in German higher education institutions. As a result international students now have literature covering the contents of a course in investment appraisal in the form of an easy-to-read case study with easily understood graphics and notations.

Valuation of Internet and Technology Stocks

Author : Brian Kettell
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780750653831
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Valuation of Internet and Technology Stocks written by Brian Kettell and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2002-04-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New ways of looking, researching and valuing these companies need to be addressed. Valuation of Internet and Technology Stocks offers practical information to enable institutional investors to value internet.coms and high tech companies more accurately. The author highlights the deficiencies in existing stock market techniques and shows how they need to be modified or, in most cases, replaced with techniques more suited for the revolution in economies which had taken place since 1991. The economic rules in the financial market place have changed to the extent that strategies successfully applied in the post war era have now been relegated to the deleted items box. 'Valuation on Internet and Technology Stocks' reviews existing stock market techniques highlighting their deficiencies and show how the New Economics necessitates new forms of investment analysis. * Investigates why there has been a high correlation between high loss companies and a rocketing stock price * Questions whether there is still a place for discounted cash flows when there is no cash flow to discount * Considers what new methods are available to value super growth companies and whether these methods are any better than existing techniques

Technologies & Methodologies for Evaluating Information Technology in Business

Author : Charles K. Davis
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1931777640
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (317 download)

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Book Synopsis Technologies & Methodologies for Evaluating Information Technology in Business by : Charles K. Davis

Download or read book Technologies & Methodologies for Evaluating Information Technology in Business written by Charles K. Davis and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the macro management level to the micro business detail, information technology (IT) is essential to modern business success and necessitates a new kind of knowledge application: IT evaluation. This academic analysis covers IT evaluation strategies for measuring its impact on individuals, organizations, and small, mid-size, and large businesses. Covered are the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), software measurement frameworks, the balanced scorecard, and project management."

Investment Appraisal: A Simple Introduction

Author : K.H. Erickson
Publisher : K.H. Erickson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investment Appraisal: A Simple Introduction written by K.H. Erickson and published by K.H. Erickson. This book was released on 2013-11-16 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investment Appraisal: A Simple Introduction offers an accessible guide to the methods and uses of investment appraisal, with examples and calculations throughout. Understand the accounting rate of return (ARR), the payback period (PP), the net present value (NPV), and the internal rate of return (IRR). Work through four extended example studies for each approach, and learn how to easily find the NPV or IRR with Excel. Compare the strengths and weaknesses of each of the four appraisal methods, and examine potential errors, risk management, and project management.

Firm Size and Corporate Investment

Author : Vito Gala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Firm Size and Corporate Investment by : Vito Gala

Download or read book Firm Size and Corporate Investment written by Vito Gala and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We provide robust empirical evidence of size effects in corporate investments. Small firms have significantly higher investment rates than large firms, even after controlling for standard empirical proxies of firm real investment opportunities and financial status, including Tobin's Q and cash flow. Firm size is at least as important as Tobin's Q and cash flow, both economically and statistically, in explaining variation in corporate investments. Unlike the cash flow effect, however, the size effect is robust to measurement error in Tobin's Q. Contrary to common wisdom, the empirical evidence suggests that firm size improves the measurement of firms' real investment opportunities rather than reflecting differences in firms' financing frictions. Using simulated method of moments, we estimate a neoclassical model of investment and show that technological decreasing returns to scale, along with measurement error in Tobin's Q, replicates successfully the empirical evidence on size effects.

Information Technology Evaluation Methods and Management

Author : Wim Van Grembergen
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1930708874
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Information Technology Evaluation Methods and Management written by Wim Van Grembergen and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evaluation of IT and its business value are the subject of many academic and business discussions. Investments in IT are growing extensively, and business managers worry about the fact that the benefits might not be as high as expected. This phenomenon is often called the IT investment paradox or the IT Black Hole: large sums are invested in IT that seem to be swallowed by a large black hole without rendering many returns. How to measure the benefits of IT is the concern of this book titled Information Technology Evaluation Methods and Management. The different IT evaluation approaches and methods are discussed and illustrated with cases: traditional financial evaluations such as the return on investment, information economics and the recently introduced IT Balanced Scorecard. The latter approach is proposed as an ideal mechanism to support the IT/business alignment process and its related IT governance process. Among some of the topics included in this book are: software measurement; ERP project evaluation; strategic electronic commerce evaluation.

Valuation of Information Technology Investments As Real Options

Author : Carlos Zozaya-Gorostiza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Valuation of Information Technology Investments As Real Options written by Carlos Zozaya-Gorostiza and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article describes a methodology for evaluating information technology investments using the real options approach. IT investment projects are categorized into development and acquisition projects depending upon the time it takes to start benefiting from the IT asset once the decision to invest has been taken. A couple of models that account for uncertainty both in the costs and benefits associated with the investment opportunity are proposed for each of these project types: a) The first model is suited for the evaluation of IT projects in which a firm invests an uncertain amount of money over an uncertain period of time to develop an IT asset that can be sold to third parties or used for its own purposes.In this model, the stochastic cost function incorporates the technical and input cost uncertainties of Pindyck's formulation for investments of uncertain cost, the uncertainty in the time required for developing the IT asset and the possibility that a catastrophic event causes the permanent abandonment of the development effort. Benefits are summarized in the value of an underlying asset that also evolves stochastically over time. b) The second model is suited for the valuation of investments in which a firm acquires an IT asset for its own use. In this model, investment is assumed to be instantaneous and the benefits associated with the investment are represented as a stream of differential cash flows over a period of time in which the technology is considered to be useful. This type of project is similar to an exchange option in which the exercise price (the cost) and the asset received are both uncertain.In contrast with previous work, both models take into consideration the particular decay in costs experienced by some IT assets (e.g., hardware) over time even if no investment takes place. The paper also illustrates the application of the IT acquisition model for the valuation of a real world example involving the deployment of point-of-sale debit services by a banking network in New England.

Handbook of Research on Promotional Strategies and Consumer Influence in the Service Sector

Author : Panwar, Upendra Singh
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522501444
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Promotional Strategies and Consumer Influence in the Service Sector written by Panwar, Upendra Singh and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic growth is directly impacted by a multitude of different industries; in recent years, the service industry has emerged as a significant contributor to the global economy. As such, the effective management of this sector has become a widely studied topic. The Handbook of Research on Promotional Strategies and Consumer Influence in the Service Sector is an authoritative reference source for the latest research on emerging methods for innovative service design and delivery, examining how growing customer expectations and global competition has influenced this industry. Featuring quality factors, marketing tools, and the effects of consumer behavior, this publication is ideally suited for researchers, professionals, and academicians actively involved in the service industry.

The Executive's Guide to Information Technology

Author : John Baschab
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471432873
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book The Executive's Guide to Information Technology written by John Baschab and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-04-21 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Executive's Guide to Information Technology is a sophisticated and comprehensive guide to running a cost-effective, efficient, and business delivery-focused corporate Information Technology (IT) unit. Eschewing the theoretical for the practical, the book gives managers the guidance they need to handle any problem effectively. It provides specific policies, approaches, and tools for each critical IT management functionó from application management to vendor management. IT management experts John Baschab and Jon Piot provide the techniques IT managers and executives need to accurately assess their current operations. Further, they offer a step-by-step improvement plan designed to raise productivity and service levels while reducing costs significantly. The authors begin by examining the symptoms and causes of waste, inefficiency and underperformance in typical IT departments before offering in-depth analysis of each operational area of IT management. They present current and emergent best practices for transforming the department into a world-class service organization. Packed with prescriptive advice and hard-earned insight, this comprehensive resource is organized into stand-alone chapters that provide quick access to important information when managers need it. In addition, spreadsheets, documents, and checklists are designed to aid in planning and decision-making and can be easily accessed on the included CD-ROM. Designed to help IT managers and top executives get the most out of their departments, their budget and themselves, the book covers such topics as: managing the department, establishing leadership roles, assessing the organization, cost management, project demand management, operations management, infrastructure planning, vendor selection and management, technical standards setting, investment evaluation, and productivity and quality measurement programs. With The Executive's Guide to Information Technology, IT managers will understand the main sources of waste in their departments, identify major management issues, learn and implement critical steps toward improvement, and manage more effectively. The book will help managers improve their performance and stature within their organizations by providing the tips and tools to overcome typical areas of friction and miscommunication between IT departments and other business functions. Executives will understand how to work effectively with the CIO or IT director, as well as provide constructive management input to the IT function, achieving the best return on their IT assets.

Strategic Infrastructure Development for Economic Growth and Social Change

Author : Ray, Nilanjan
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466674717
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Infrastructure Development for Economic Growth and Social Change written by Ray, Nilanjan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obtaining the ultimate objective of economic growth depends largely on the availability of infrastructure in the economy. New developments in finance also play an important role in enhancing economic prosperity in a country. Strategic Infrastructure Development for Economic Growth and Social Change explores different avenues of research in the areas of corporate governance, socioeconomic conditions, modern business infrastructure, business automation, strategic financial management, and financial aspects of modern businesses. This reference work discusses practical applications, skills, practices, and strategies involved in economic and business growth, and overall economic development. Academicians, practitioners, professionals, and researchers will benefit from the topics discussed in this book.

Mastering a New Role

Author : National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309046467
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Mastering a New Role written by National Academy of Engineering and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the changing character of commercial technology development and diffusion in an integrated global economy and its implications for U.S. public policies in support of technological innovation. The volume considers the history, current practice, and future prospects for national policies to encourage economic development through both direct and indirect government support of technological advance.

Evaluating Performance

Author : Michele Biasutti
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832536263
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Performance written by Michele Biasutti and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catch-Up and Competitiveness in China

Author : Jin Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134317913
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Catch-Up and Competitiveness in China written by Jin Zhang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of corporate structure, including the role of corporate headquarters, in the success of large firms. It considers these issues in relation to large global corporations, thereby providing a 'benchmark', which is then used as a contrast in a discussion of corporate structure and the role of corporate headquarters within large Chinese firms, many of which have evolved from former government ministries. It includes a detailed case-study of firms in the crucially important oil and petro-chemical sector. Overall, the book shows what a hugely competitive battle China's emerging 'national champions' face with their global competitors, and puts forward policy implications both for large Chinese firms and for the Chinese government concerning how business systems should be reformed further still in order to construct globally competitive large industrial corporations.

Managing Information Technology in Small Business: Challenges and Solutions

Author : Burgess, Stephen
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1591400120
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Managing Information Technology in Small Business: Challenges and Solutions written by Burgess, Stephen and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many countries, small businesses comprise over 95% of the proportion of private businesses and approximately half of the private workforce, with information technology being used in over 90% of these businesses. As a result, governments worldwide are placing increasing importance upon the success of small business enterpreneurs and are providing increased resources to support this emphasis. Managing Information Technology in Small Business: Challanges and Solutions presents research in areas such as IT performance, electronic commerce, Internet adoption, and IT planning methodologies and focuses on how these areas impact small businesses.