The Effective Measurement and Management of ICT Costs and Benefits, Third Edition

Appendix H: Issues Addressed in Effectiveness Surveys

Functioning of Existing Transaction/Reporting Systems

The following represents the issues on which the 38 questions in the Miller Doyle effectiveness measurement instrument are based.

  • Completeness of output information

  • Accuracy of output information

  • Presence of monitoring systems

  • Relevance of report contents

  • Currency of output information

  • Volume of output information

  • Report availability and timeliness

  • More exception systems

Linkages to strategic processes in the organization

  • Top management involvement

  • Strategic IS planning

  • Business-related systems priorities

  • Using database technology

  • Overall cost effectiveness of IS

  • Use of steering committee

Amount and quality of user involvement

  • Users feeling of participation

  • Users control over IS services

Communication between IS and user management

  • Users understanding of systems

  • Users confidence in systems

Responsiveness to new systems needs

  • Prompt processing of change requests

  • Short lead time, new systems development

  • Responsiveness to changing user needs

  • IS support when users prepare new systems proposals

  • Flexibility of data and reports

End-user computing

  • More analysis systems

  • More enquiry systems

  • Effective training of users

  • Ease of user access to systems

Quality of IS staff

  • User-oriented systems analysts

  • Competence of systems analysts

  • Technical competence of IS staff

  • Larger IS effort to create news systems

  • Positive attitude to IS by users

Reliability of service

  • Low percentage of hardware and systems downtime

  • Efficient running of current systems

  • Data security and privacy

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