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Many large companies are in the process of modernizing their current IT and many SMEs are in the process of setting up an IT organizational form. Due to the exponential introduction of technology in the digital change, numerous tools have been rolled out, which are now mostly used in the company without a superordinate purpose. Now the question is: What forms of IT organization are there for companies? There is a distinction between IT organizational forms and IT organizational models. For completeness, I recommend reading the other article as well. Reading tip: IT organizational forms Classic IT organizational model A classic IT organizational model is often equated with ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library). This is constantly being expanded and redefined. The idea of ITIL is the continuous improvement of the service. IT sees itself as a service provider. ITIL basically consists of four processes: Incident Management Problem management Change management Release…

Modern IT is characterized by changed framework conditions. In addition to the pressure of profitability, IT should also be innovative and demonstrate a high level of service mentality. Basically, one reads in many magazines that the modern IT organization should be as central as necessary and as decentralized as necessary. But how should that work and what form of IT organization is there? There is a distinction between IT organizational forms and IT organizational models. For completeness, I recommend reading the other article as well. Reading tip: IT organizational models Decentralized IT organization In the decentralized IT, there is clear management and assignment of orders to IT. In short, each unit has its own IT (see figure). The advantage is that these are close to the line and therefore often have a higher orientation to the department. However, the department is then disciplinary responsible for IT, which reduces the importance…

In my research I have next to one Group discussion also collected the data. I have one for this quantitative survey carried out. This is used for the quick collection of data that I have in the Round tables could evaluate together with the participants. All of them are always based on a dedicated literature analysis. In this article, I’ll give you some tips on how to do this. Reading tip: Recommended reading The literature analysis summarizes existing knowledge in a meaningful way. A search in academic databases with the help of search strings describes, summarizes, evaluates, clarifies and integrates similar results and approaches (Fettke 2006). Although this does not primarily generate new knowledge, it can help to structure the existing knowledge and to build on it. The procedure includes the literature search, literature evaluation and analysis and interpretation in the context of the research question. The literature analysis consists…

“On the one hand, digitization can be expected to give project management a boost, because it is primarily driven by projects. Will the project manager become a control center due to the growing complexity, the increasingly distributed and interdisciplinary teams, often from different organizations, networked as a generalist? “Asks Project magazine in a blog parade to project manager2030. I would like to participate in this in this context. The project manager today! What about the project manager today? A keyword is probably the technical management of employees in the matrix organization. A kind of toothless tiger who has to get people to work on his project in addition to their day-to-day business. It is seldom that you are assigned full-time staff, because even if you do, the employee is often still on 5 other projects. At least that’s my impression. The project manager has to motivate and bring the various…

” In the medium term, the IT department will have changed in such a way that it no longer has anything in common with its current state. “warns that Magazine CIO . But what will change in the IT organization in 2020? According to the magazine, a reorganization of IT in order to better understand it with the requirements of the business side is on the agenda of a good 70 percent of companies worldwide. Also in Oracle’s blog there is a discussion about the IT organization 2020. So says the blog: In today’s technology world, it’s less about operational deployment and infrastructure than about finding solutions and doing business together. IT departments are becoming smaller as companies outsource operational activities to external service providers. More than ever, end users are required to ensure that functions run smoothly. Reading tip: What is an IT organization Now, in most of the…

The digital change requires many companies to restructure their IT. However, many SMEs as well as large companies have had IT or many books for years and my articles also reflect the abstract models. However, I have found an approach that is not directly in the books and I call it that process-oriented approach . I call it that because it reproduces a process 1: 1 using a tool chain. You are also welcome to read more about the abstract models. Reading tip: IT organizational models Reading tip: IT organizational forms Background of the approach The term process digitization is on everyone’s lips and every step in the digital transformation should be supported by a tool or, ideally, automated directly. For this reason I think it makes sense to take a specific process and assign a tool to each step. I would like to show this on a typical project…

IT organization, also called IT management, is the abbreviation for information technology organization and describes the use and management of this. IT organization is often only associated with the hardware and software used by companies, although, strictly speaking, it also includes users, i.e. staff or subordinate organizational departments. Since these not only use information technology, but also create and optimize it, they must also be taken into account in the IT organization. Often the use of information technology pursues several goals, which have to be reconciled with the help of the organization of good IT management. composition If you take a closer look at the organization of information technology, you can divide it into the following main groups, which are related to IT in different ways. Your influence on and your requirements for information technology result in different areas of responsibility, the fulfillment of which is the main task of…

Grounded Theory is a social science approach to the systematic collection and evaluation of primarily qualitative data (interview transcripts, observation protocols) with the aim of generating theory. It is not a single method, but a series of interlocking processes (Source: Wikipedia ). I often notice that there is no direct literature on many new topics about digital change and therefore not through a normal one Literature analysis can be explored. So the researcher has to generate knowledge himself. Grounded theory can help here. What is the Grounded Theory? To this end, Bodendorf et al. (2010): The grounded theory is derived inductively through systematic collection and analysis of data related to the research object (Strauss and Corbin 1996, p. 7). Data collection, analysis and the emerging theory are arranged in a cycle that is run through several times as part of a research process. The following figure shows the control loop.…

In the course of my doctorate, I only did a few expert interviews at the beginning, but I supervised numerous bachelor and master theses that made use of this method. I even have the feeling that the typical bachelor thesis is what I’m looking for Literature analysis and expert interviews. In the following text I would like to give you some tips. Advantages of an expert interview The purpose of the interview is to ask a selected expert about hypotheses. It is therefore not used to get an overview of a topic, but to evaluate specific points of the literature analysis. So it’s exploratory because you never know what kind of knowledge will be gained. The expert interview therefore has its strength in In contrast to the survey, in unstructured and open questions. To Group discussion it is differentiated by the fact that it is a dialogue between two people.…

Of the digital change has arrived in companies and forces them to request more and more computing power. One solution is what is known as cloud computing. But what is cloud computing? Before the turn of the millennium, Germany was still completely free of the cloud! Manufacturers have only been offering dedicated solutions for the cloud for a few years. But what is cloud computing? If you look in Wikipedia you will find the following: Cloud computing describes the provision of IT infrastructure such as storage space, computing power or application software as a service via the Internet. In more technical terms, cloud computing describes the approach of making IT infrastructures available via a computer network without these having to be installed on the local computer (source: Wikipedia ). What is cloud computing – service models There are three different service models, some of which overlap. These are: infrastructure, platform…

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