A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
The MIND Canvas – Towards IS Capability Assessment
Authors: Baiyere A, Salmela H
Editors: Donnellan B, Gleasure R, Helfert M, Kenneally J, Rothenberger M, Chiarini Tremblay M, Vandermeer D, Winter R
Conference name: International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
Publisher: DESRIST
Publication year: 2015
Book title : At the Vanguard of Design Science: First Impressions and EarlyFindings from Ongoing Research Research-in-Progress Papers andPoster Presentations from the 10th International Conference, DESRIST 2015
ISBN: 978-1-910097-80-9
With the increasing ubiquity and growing pervasiveness of Information Systems (IS) in todays’ organisations, one of the capabilities of essential value to an organisation is its IS/IT (henceforth IS) capability. However, despite this increasing importance of the IS capability, research has barely focused on providing a measure for assessing the IT capability of an organization. In overview, IS capability has contributed significantly in understanding how information technology remains a valuable component of any modern day firm (Bharadwaj 2000, Santhanam and Hartono 2003). While these prior research focus in itself is of value in establishing the importance of IS capability, this current study posits that this research area is attaining maturity and it is about time we extend this stream to provide a measure for assessing and evaluating the IS capability that defines an organization. To borrow a quote from Peter Drucker - “if it can be measured; it can be improved”.
