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Starting Building a IT Policy: A Quest to IT Success

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An organization uses information technology (IT), because the IT is consistent with the functional and operational objectives designed by that organization. The investment that is required to place technological innovation in an organization carries significant weight. This weight can be translated into decision making or monetary costs. It is therefore important that after implementation, ensured close monitoring of their use and such monitoring can take many forms, one of which can be explicit through a usage policy. It is the responsibility of the technology manager, to outline the best policy to use the technology that was adopted first by, taking into account the need of the organization and secondly to ensure the construction of monitoring mechanisms and set up conditions to facilitate its successful use. Therefore, the study of the adoption and diffusion of a technological innovation provides these professionals more tools that can assist in the preparation of these strategies, without forgetting that it is necessary to plan at the user level and not only to assist the management in its objectives.

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  1. Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Viseu, Portugal

    Pedro Neves Rito

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  1. Dept of Computer Languages and Systems, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

    María José Escalona

  2. IWT2 Research Group FIDETIA, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

    Gustavo Aragón

  3. Monash University, Caaulfield East, Victoria, Australia

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  4. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

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  5. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

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  6. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

    Christoph Schneider

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Rito, P.N. (2014). Starting Building a IT Policy: A Quest to IT Success. In: José Escalona, M., Aragón, G., Linger, H., Lang, M., Barry, C., Schneider, C. (eds) Information System Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07215-9_15

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