Value-based Management of IT projects

基于价值的 IT 项目管理

• 批准号: 258382375
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Hans Ulrich Buhl
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2013-12-31 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/258382375?language=en
• 关键词: Value; based; Management; projects

According to a recent study of the IT Governance Institute (ITGI 2011), about one out of five investments into information technology (IT) is terminated before implementation. Major reasons for those high termination rates are risks that emerge during the runtime of projects and cause budget and time overruns. Those risks lead to the late conclusion that - in contrast to prior expectations - anticipated results cannot be achieved (ITGI 2011). The insolvency of the German company Schiesser in 2009 is one of many prominent examples for the economic damages that failing IT-projects can cause: A major reason for the insolvency was the Go-Live of a new enterprise resource planning (ERP)-system leading to erroneous orders for goods (Kessler 2009). To cope with this challenge, scientific literature primarily focused on the development of methods for the ex-ante-valuation of IT-projects. However, empirical studies reveal that a lot of risk factors emerge during the runtime of projects. Therefore, conducting ex-ante-valuations of IT-projects is insufficient. In order to be able to identify emerging risks early and to counteract reasonably, methods for a continuous IT-project-steering are necessary. Those are - to the best of our knowledge - missing in today's scientific literature. Thus, within the scope of this proposal for a research grant, we pursue the objective to develop methods that allow for a continuous value-based steering of IT-projects based on a capable ex ante valuation. The results of prior granted research projects like e.g. 'IT-Portfolio Management' provide the ideal basis for this undertaking: The objective of this specific project was the development of methods for the valuation of IT-projects and IT-portfolios considering both risk and return. The fact that a large number of articles written by the applicants could be published proves both the sound basis for this undertaking as well as the scientific relevance of this subject. By applying methods for continuous project-steering companies can avoid economic damages caused by failing IT-projects. At the same time, a continuous steering of IT-projects offers the possibility to continuously readjust IT-projects in order to - given underlying circumstances - achieve the highest possible yield.

根据信息技术治理研究所最近的一项研究（ITGI 2011），大约五分之一的信息技术投资在实施之前就终止了。这些高终止率的主要原因是项目运行期间出现的风险，造成预算和时间超支。这些风险导致了较晚的结论-与先前的预期相反-预期结果无法实现（ITGI 2011）。2009年德国Schiesser公司的破产是失败的IT项目可能造成的经济损失的许多突出例子之一：破产的一个主要原因是新的企业资源规划（ERP）系统的上线导致错误的货物订单（Kessler 2009）。为了科普这一挑战，科学文献主要关注IT项目事前评估方法的开发。然而，实证研究表明，在项目的运行过程中会出现许多风险因素。因此，对信息技术项目进行事前评价是不够的。为了能够及早发现新出现的风险并合理地加以应对，有必要采取持续的信息技术项目指导方法。据我们所知，今天的科学文献中缺少这些。因此，在这项研究补助金的建议范围内，我们追求的目标是开发方法，允许一个持续的价值为基础的指导IT项目的基础上，一个有能力的事前估值。先前授予的研究项目，如“IT投资组合管理”的结果为这项工作提供了理想的基础：这个特定项目的目标是开发评估IT项目和IT投资组合的方法，同时考虑风险和回报。申请人撰写的大量文章可以发表的事实证明了这项工作的坚实基础以及这一主题的科学相关性。通过应用连续项目指导的方法，公司可以避免因IT项目失败而造成的经济损失。与此同时，不断指导信息技术项目提供了不断调整信息技术项目的可能性，以便在特定的基本情况下实现尽可能高的收益。