Strategic information technology investments: guidelines for decision making
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Evaluation of strategic investments in information technology
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Journal of Management Information Systems
Strategic management of information technology investments: an options perspective
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Firm Characteristics and Investments in Information Technology: Scale Andscope Effects
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A Case for Using Real Options Pricing Analysis to Evaluate Information Technology Project Investment
Information Systems Research
Real Options and IT Platform Adoption: Implications for Theory and Practice
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Valuing information technology infrastructures: a growth options approach
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A Framework for Assessing the Business Value of Information Technology Infrastructures
Journal of Management Information Systems
Prioritizing a Portfolio of Information Technology Investment Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
Information Exploitation and Interorganizational Systems Ownership
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
On the Valuation of Multistage Information Technology Investments Embedding Nested Real Options
Journal of Management Information Systems
Identifying Software Project Risks: An International Delphi Study
Journal of Management Information Systems
Managing Information Technology Investment Risk: A Real Options Perspective
Journal of Management Information Systems
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Risk Management of Contract Portfolios in IT Services: The Profit-at-Risk Approach
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
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Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
The impact of business analytics on supply chain performance
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IT project portfolio optimization: a risk management approach to software development governance
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Should We Go Our Own Way? Backsourcing Flexibility in IT Services Contracts
Journal of Management Information Systems
Organizational Learning and Capabilities for Onshore and Offshore Business Process Outsourcing
Journal of Management Information Systems
Knowledge risks in organizational networks: An exploratory framework
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Resolving uncertainty and creating value from the exercise of e-commerce investment options
Information Systems Journal
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A Framework Using ITIM to Guide IT Investments by State Governments
International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications
Organizational Learning and Capabilities for Onshore and Offshore Business Process Outsourcing
Journal of Management Information Systems
The effect of synergy enhancement on information technology portfolio selection
Information Technology and Management
How Business Intelligence Creates Value: An Empirical Investigation
International Journal of Business Intelligence Research
How Business Intelligence Creates Value: An Empirical Investigation
International Journal of Business Intelligence Research
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This field study research evaluates the viability of applying an option-based risk management (OBRiM) framework, and its accompanying theoretical perspective and methodology, to real-world sequential information technology (IT) investment problems. These problems involve alternative investment structures that bear different risk profiles for the firm, and also may improve the payoffs of the associated projects and the organization's performance. We sought to surface the costs, benefits, and risks associated with a complex sequential investment setting that has the key features that OBRiM treats. We combine traditional, purchased real options that subsequently create strategic flexibility for the decision maker, with implicit or embedded real options that are available with no specific investment required provided the decision maker recognizes them. This combination helps the decision maker to both (1) explicitly surface all of his or her strategic choices and (2) accurately value those choices, including ones that require prior enabling investments. The latter permits senior managers to adjust a project's investment trajectory in the face of revealed risk. This normally is important when there are uncertain organizational, technological, competitive, and market conditions. The context of our research is a data mart consolidation project, which was conducted by a major airline firm in association with a data warehousing systems vendor. Field study inquiry and data collection were essential elements in the retrospective analysis of the efficacy of OBRiM as a means to control risk in a large-scale project. We learned that OBRiM's main benefits are (1) the ability to generate meaningful option-bearing investment structures, (2) simplification of the complexities of real options for the business context, (3) accuracy in analyzing the risks of IT investments, and (4) support for more proactive planning. These issues, which we show are more effectively addressed by OBRiM than the other methods, have become crucial as more corporate finance-style approaches are applied to IT investment and IT services problems. Our evaluative study shows that OBRiM has the potential to add value for managers looking to structure risky IT investments, although some aspects still require refinements.