Systemic Risk in IT Portfolios : An Integrated Quantification Approach

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Beer, Martina ; Wolf, Thomas ; Zare Garizy, Tirazheh:
Systemic Risk in IT Portfolios : An Integrated Quantification Approach.
In: Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). - Fort Worth, USA , 2015
ISBN 978-0-9966831-1-1

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Recent trends in digitalization combined with continuous innovation pressure lead to an increasing number of IT project, which nowadays are accomplished within huge IT project portfolios. Even though numerous IT project and portfolio evaluation and planning approaches have been developed and applied in companies all over the world, about 25% of IT projects still fail, which may result in a global value destruction of approximately 900 billion USD. With one main reason been detected in the lack of transparency regarding dependencies within IT portfolios, this paper draws on graph theory to provide a rigor consideration of the systemic risk that is based on different kinds of direct and indirect dependencies within IT portfolios. Based on this assessment, it provides an integrated novel, and quantitative approach for IT portfolio evaluation that strives to mitigate IT project failures, as it helps decision makers to evaluate their IT portfolios more adequately.

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Item Type:	Article in a book
Refereed:	Yes
Keywords:	IT portfolio; IT portfolio evaluation; project dependencies; intra-temporal dependencies; inter-temporal dependencies; ex-ante evaluation; systemic risk; risk quantification; alpha-centrality
Institutions of the University:	Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration > Professor Information Systems and Digital Energy Management Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration > Former Professors > Professor Information Systems and Sustainable IT Management - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gilbert Fridgen Profile Fields > Emerging Fields > Innovation and Consumer Protection Research Institutions Research Institutions > Affiliated Institutes Research Institutions > Affiliated Institutes > Fraunhofer Project Group Business and Information Systems Engineering Research Institutions > Affiliated Institutes > FIM Research Center Finance & Information Management Profile Fields Profile Fields > Emerging Fields Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration > Former Professors
Result of work at the UBT:	No
DDC Subjects:	000 Computer Science, information, general works > 004 Computer science 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
Date Deposited:	13 Nov 2015 13:06
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2022 08:05
URI:	https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/21292