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Elements of Comprehensive Assessments of IT Infrastructure Projects in the Austrian Ministry of Finance

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Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective (EGOVIS 2010)

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This article strives to support research and practice in the application of decision and valuation models to IT infrastructure projects in public administration. The aim is to present the elements needed to flexibly embrace evaluation structure, management and quantification methods. We sketch how different models can work together in a complementary way laying a robust and comprehensive foundation for an integrated analysis of IT impacts. We present design and assessment results from two major IT projects in the Austrian Ministry of Finance.

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  1. Royal Holloway, University of London, TW20 0EX, Egham, United Kingdom

    Edward W. N. Bernroider

  2. Bogazici University, 34342, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

    Stefan Koch

  3. Vienna University of Economics and Business, Augasse 2-6, A-1090, Vienna, Austria

    Volker Stix

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  1. Center for Applied ICT (CAICT) and Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Howitzvej 60, 2000, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Kim Normann Andersen

  2. Institute of Legal Information, Theory and Techniques, ITTIG-CNR, Via dei Barucci 20, 50127, Florence, Italy

    Enrico Francesconi

  3. ESI/Informatics, Örebro University, 701 82, Örebro, Sweden

    Åke Grönlund

  4. Faculty of Law, Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, P.O.Box 1030, 1000, Amsterdam, BA, The Netherlands

    Tom M. van Engers

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Bernroider, E.W.N., Koch, S., Stix, V. (2010). Elements of Comprehensive Assessments of IT Infrastructure Projects in the Austrian Ministry of Finance. In: Andersen, K.N., Francesconi, E., Grönlund, Å., van Engers, T.M. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6267. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_8

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