The PaTH (University of Pittsburgh/UPMC, Penn State College of Medicine, Temple University Hospital, and Johns Hopkins University) clinical data research network initiative is a collaborative effort among four academic health centers in the Mid-Atlantic region. PaTH will provide robust infrastructure to conduct research, explore clinical outcomes, link with biospecimens, and improve methods for sharing and analyzing data across our diverse populations. Our disease foci are idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, atrial fibrillation, and obesity. The four network sites have extensive experience in using data from electronic health records and have devised robust methods for patient outreach and recruitment. The network will adopt best practices by using the open-source data-sharing tool, Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2), at each site to enhance data sharing using centrally defined common data elements, and will use the Shared Health Research Information Network (SHRINE) for distributed queries across the network.

The successful realisation of value (i.e., benefits) from information technology (IT) investments has consistently been reported as one of the major organisational challenges because it generally falls short of expectations. From a project perspective, we examine which factors are necessary to realise IS developments' anticipated value. To better understand the role of benefits management (BM) determinants and their impact on successful benefits realisation, we apply partial least squares (PLS) technique on data collected from 456 individuals. We find that currently the greatest potential to increase the probability of successful benefits realisation lies in the improvement of the ability to continuously review the status of benefits realisation in projects. On the other hand, we find that providing project stakeholders with incentives to align their individual goals and interests towards the common objective of realising planed project benefits is perceived to be not very effective.Keywords: benefits management; IS value; IS/IT investments; project value.Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Mohan, K., Ahlemann, F. and Braun, J. (2016) 'Realising value from projects: a performance-based analysis of determinants of successful realisation of project benefits, Int.

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Although organisations continue to develop and implement information technology (IS), the successful realisation of benefits from such investments has consistently been reported as one of the major organisational challenges, because it generally falls short of expectations. From a project perspective, we examine which factors are necessary to realise IS developments' anticipated value. We use the existing literature and field study results from 29 organisations to collect a pool of items, which are merged in a questionnaire to help understand the mechanism of successful IT value realisation in organisations. We use the questionnaire to collect data from 456 individuals involved in IT projects; on the basis of this, we conduct exploratory factor analysis to determine the factor structure present in the data, and confirmatory factor analysis to validate the derived factor structure. Results indicate the presence of three specific benefits management capabilities and four contextual factors that facilitate effectiveness of these benefits management capabilities in realising the planned value of IS developments. The primary implication of our findings is the identification of the principal levers to derive IT-enabled value.