Dear Richard,

Thank you very much for your valuable input and list of literature. I will certainly look up the articles mentioned in your comment. More importantly, based on your comment, I discovered that as an IS scientist I had not paid enough attention to economics and econometrics studies.

What I have found interesting in the analysis of my survey data is that investments into IT appear not as a leading indicator but a lagging indicator. They follow economic cycles (GDP growth, increase in productivity) with a lag. I have calculated three indices from the survey; IT-barometer index (8 indicators), IT deployment index (15 indicators) and IT management index (12 indicators), They all behave in the same way 

Kind Regards,

Tomi

Dear Leon,

Thank you sir for your kind response. I have followed the SIM surveys via MISQ executive through our library services for several years. I wish I could get similar amounts of responses as you do. That would increase the possibilities for through multi-variate statistical testing significantly. 

I'm currently in the middle of writing my final article this year and will fly to Hicss 2015 in early January. I'll look in detail into the SIM survey after that and will come back to you about possible collaboration. I feel honoured by your request. 

I'm planning to make our survey data open data to researchers some time during next year. 

Dear Richard,

I like your suggestion for the reason of my discovery about the lag.  

As our county is fairly small measured by the number of inhabitants (5,5 million) that offers some possibilities for research. For example, I know personally most of the CIOs working in the largest 100 companies and CIOs working in Ministries and other large public sector organizations. I have discussed the phenomenon of the lag in IT investments with many of them. During the recent years we have included survey questions about planned activities and realized activities in relation to the economic situation. Unfortunately I do not have those reported in English yet.

I'm not fully happy with the translation of our public IT barometer studies as they are just that, translations. I hope to have the time to complete the summary report over the past 6 years, which I started this fall.

Kind Regards, 

Tomi

Dear Tomi,

I have used indicators from WEF Global Information Technology Report, they are standardized across a large number of countries (the questions are answered locally) and this report is published annually. The data are freely downloadable at WEF´s website.

http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-information-technology-report-2014

http://www.weforum.org/global-information-technology-report-2014-data-platform

I have also used indicators from the Web index to compare across countries. But both are expert surveys.

http://thewebindex.org/

Best regards,

Thorhildur

I see that time is short for you Tomi, but I suggest at some point you follow up on the Standish Group CHAOS reports.  

Thank you very much for your contributions Thorhildur and Doug,

I have compared our data/results to those of World Economic Forum to the extent applicable and I have also used Standish Group's Chaos reports in presentations on our results regarding IT project performance.

The difference to WEF, IMD as well as to UN and Waseda eGovernment studies is that our IT barometer survey focuses on how survey respondents evaluate the deployment and management of IT - e.g. the impact of IT on the change in revenues, the significance of IT in customer service, the ability to meet IT projects'  business objectives, the existence of strategy or roadmap for the business use of social media and 250 other similar survey items -  rather than how big proportion of citizens have various devices, Internet connections or how part of (public) services are available electronically. 

Dear: Tommy,

Maybe you interest in this paper (attached), or Google book 

https://books.google.co.id/books?id=aVnhnRh2NWEC&pg=PA373&lpg=PA373&dq=repeated+studies+on+the+deployment+and+management+of+IT,+journal&source=bl&ots=ut5e8yYLBJ&sig=spc2OSjWB5TZTrJBxQe7g7TW92U&hl=en&sa=X&ei=92qLVPboFoHf8AXjuYDQAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=repeated%20studies%20on%20the%20deployment%20and%20management%20of%20IT%2C%20journal&f=false

Regards

Hengky

I am not familiar with such repeated survey on the deployment and management of IT.

There are many studies where one has analyzed various IT strategies that are found relevant for improving productivity and profitability.

If you are interested in  such studies, you may find this of some value...

Thanks

Chapter Modern Manufacturing

I hope that this discussion will continue. At the same time I want to thank every one who has contributed so far.

It seems possible that the survey we have conducted in one fairly small developed economy is fairly unique. Our IT barometer survey asks business and IT executives/managers to express how they perceive the deployment of both traditional IT and emerging technologies. Topics covered are perceived benefits and other business impacts of IT, use of IT in various organizational activities, impact of economic situation on IT, success of IT projects, IT costs,  deployment and management of IT in relation to outsourcing, cloud services, eCommerce, social media, BYOD, data management and big data, IT risk management, innovation process IT, and IT management methods such as ITIL and COBIT.

So far, I have not written many articles about the data - situation I hope to be able to change in the future.  Six-year time-series data offers good potential for that. The first draft for a proper article (written together with two of my colleagues) will come out at the Hicss 2015 conference. That paper explores the impact of IT investment consistency on IT performance with a SEM model. Should you wish to receive that paper, please, either look at the conference documentation or drop me an email and ask for the paper ([email protected]) 

I'm also open for proposals should you be interested to cooperate with me.   

Good Morning,

Annually you have the CHAOS reports from the Standish Group. does help in some way?

Regards

Jorge

I have executed these studies with the support of the Finnish Information Processing Association (FIPA). In 2015, the name of the survey was changed to "IT and Digitalization" survey. Due to various reasons the survey was not regularly executed during 2016-2019. Last year we started again. Due to Covid-19 we also had a section on the impact of Covid on IT-spending, IT-investment, employment and the future deployment of Covid digital jump experiences. The focus of the survey has remained the same. We investigate (1) the business significance and business success of IT deployment (IT- projects, IT-services, eCommerce, data-driven business,...), (2) the success of IT governance and management (governance, architecture, project management, IT expenditure and investment management ...), (3) how the governance and management of IT in alignment with corporate governance and management is related to (1) and (2).

There are similar associations in most European countries but as far as we know they are not conducting similar (annual) studies. We regularly compare our findings to Chaos report and Eurostat reports when possible. The reports of (national and regional) statistics organizations investigate the diffusion of IT whereas our survey focuses on the business significance and success of IT. Would still like to work together with those interested