Journal of Information Technology Management
Volume:5 Issue: 1, 2013

Organizations are faced with these fundamental questions: what relation is there between each E-Procurement’s dimensions and organizational performance? And how organizations can set the optimal level of multiple dimensions of e-procurement? In this study, initially, the affecting dimensions of electronic procurement have been extracted from the previous literatures which have tended to use one-dimensional concept of procurement, then their simultaneous impact on organizational performance were assessed. This study is a survey. Information is collected by a questionnaire. The questionnaire reliability is measured through Cronbach's alpha, its construct validity measured by the confirmatory factor analysis and its content has the validity. Iran's top 300 companies were selected as the statistical population and 177 companies out of those completed and returned the questionnaires. In order to assess the causal correlation relationship between dependent and independent variables of twenty hypothesizes, types of parametric tests including multiple regression, path analysis, factor analysis and one-sample T-test were used. Results explain the impact of Volume, Diversity, Breadth and Depth as dimensions of e-procurement on cost reduction, internal efficiency, administrative efficiency and improve coordination.

Due to the increasing importance of Internet Banking and the critical actions taken by banks in order to offer Internet banking services in Iran and also according to the increasing number of people using Internet Banking services, it is essential for bank marketers to understand Internet banking customers better. Only through this comprehension the marketers are able to develop strategies and tactics to attract and sustain their customers. In this study we have investigated the influential factors in Internet banking systems quality. Electronic questionnaires were applied for data gathering through a case study of Mellat Bank Internet banking customers. According to research findings and conclusions, it is suggested to apply internet banking customer’s viewpoint in designing internet banking systems to provide customers with the opportunity of using Internet banking services and achieving good experiences. In this way, Iranian banks can differentiate their net-based services from their competitors.

One of the organizations’ concerns is their awareness about the degree of readiness for implementing social intranet. In response to this problem, a 48 item questionnaire was developed. Fars Regional Electric Company consisting of 820 human resources was selected as statistical population. By systematic random method, 262 personnel were determined as sample and the developed questionnaire were distributed among them. Construct validity was measured by conformity factor analysis and reliability of questionnaire was measured by Cronbach’s alpha and finally 43 item were confirmed. Results showed that Fars Regional Electric Company enjoys the proper organizational culture, policy and procedure and organizational resource, but personal experience of people in social intranet area is low and organizational structure also doesnt have necessary characteristics for implementation of social intranet. Finally suggestions were introduced for improving company readiness in implementation of social intranet.

Implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning has had a chaotic history in which many projects ended successfully and many failed or ended without approaching the predetermined objectives. This research, in terms of purpose, is considered fundamental since it designs a new system for solving a fundamental problem and it is also an applied research because the research result is deployed in the organization for determining the implementation success ratio. The research utilizes the content analysis for identifying the factors and indicators and uses a survey research for gathering data from selected organizations. In this study, for overcoming the problems of implementation project, a fuzzy system has been designed, trained and validated using the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System so as to predict the implementation success ratio before the initiation of the project. The research output is an intelligent fuzzy inference system.

In the knowledge-based era, knowledge is considered the most influential asset of successful organizations and knowledge management (KM) is their most important function. Knowledge creation is one of the most important practices of KM and has an influential effect on the innovativeness of organization. Knowledge creation is considerably dependent on the employees’ capabilities and readiness. Employees’ empowerment can develop these capabilities effectively. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to describe the effects of empowering of employees on the knowledge creation by them. The research method is descriptive and correlational. The population of the research consists of 950 managers and senior experts of the NIOPDC. A sample of 270.subjects was selected as statistical sampling. According to the research findings, all of the studied psychological dimensions of employee's empowerment have positive considerable effects on enhancing knowledge creation in organization. Finally, according to research findings, some suggestions are presented.

Nowadays, the idea of creating virtual organizations has been presented by scholars as a new method of collaboration and managing the collaboration and has been known as an applicable approach in insurance industry. Based on above applicability, this idea has been considered in this paper for a virtual insurer organization and according to efficiency and effectiveness of enterprise architecture (EA) in managing organization's business the effort has been made for identifying the best fit enterprise architecture framework for this organization. Therefore, in the first step, the evaluation criteria for EA framework have been selected based on expert's opinions via Delphi survey. After that, considering these criteria, the alternatives have been evaluated via Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Finally, after verification of the decision making process, the enterprise architecture framework for the virtual insurer organization has been identified and proposed.

The impact of information & communication technology to increase financial transactions in different fields shows the positive developments of this industry in IRAN. But, is the ICT industry also can be effective in the economic capital of the country? It occurs when the ICT industry has a good performance in the capital markets. In this study, the ICT industry in the Tehran Stock Exchange was used to check its performance in the economy's capital. The data and documents related to the profitability of companies in this industry for 6 years were studied. Eight companies with the nature of ICT and also 68 other companies in 17 industries were selected. To understand the informational efficiency, runs test; and for trend analyzing, linear regression; and for comparative evaluation, Topsis model have been used. The results showed that the ICT industry in Tehran stock exchange has not even weak level of performance information. In addition it has had a decreasing trend and finally in comparison to other industries it has delivered a poor performance; the results are completely inconsistent with other countries and show that Iran's ICT condition needs a fundamental reflection.