The Effect of Information Technology Infrastructure Flexibility on Intranet Effectiveness

Analysis of IT infrastructure flexibility impacts on IT-Business strategic alignment

“…According to Masrek and Jusoff (2009), IT personnel flexibility represents the ability of IT personnel in dealing with changes in business needs and to work cooperatively across functional units by using various technology platforms. Those four components (connectivity, modularity, compatibility and IT personnel flexibility) are adopted in this study to provide a comprehensive view on IT infrastructure flexibility.…”

“…Items related to IT infrastructure flexibility were derived from several previous literatures (Nelson, 1991;Duncan, 1995;Byrd & Turner, 2000;Chung et al, 2003;Tallon & Kraemer 2003;Ness, 2005;Paschke, Molla & Matin, 2008;Fink & Neumann, 2009;Masrek & Jusoff, 2009;Tallon & Pinsonneault, 2011). It consists of: 5 connectivity-related items, 6 modularity-related items, 4 compatibility-related items, and 7-IT personnel flexibility-related items.…”

“…Adaptability of IT personnel represents the ability of IT personnel to adapt to changes in business strategy and work cooperatively across functional units (Masrek & Jusoff, 2009). The analysis result showed that the adaptability of IT personnel does not show a significant positive effect on the strategic alignment.…”

Dimensions of information technology infrastructure flexibility in improving management efficacy of construction industry perspective: A conceptual study

“…This is because, upgrading or adopting new technology consumes large investment, and if they do so, they have to bear a risk towards the failure of upgraded or new adopted IT. Additionally, the findings also reported that construction managers are concerned about how the workers will respond to the addition of IT because they are not willing to invest in adding a technology assistance department at present (Hewage et al, 2008 In academic journals as well, there has been an increasing interest in measuring the ability of IT to handle changes as it is the particular characteristic in IT infrastructure which has a critical impact on the enterprise's ability to use IT competitively (Allen and Boynton, 1991;Byrd and Turner, 2000;Chung et al, 2005;Chung, et al, 2003;Davenport and Linder, 1994;Duncan, 1995;Gibson, 1993;Masrek and Jusoff, 2009;Rockart et al, 1996;Weill, 1993).…”

“…As many researchers have addressed the impact of ITIF towards IT effectiveness, they agree that ITIF is a significant factor towards the effective delivery of IT services and solutions and it provides a powerful and viable approach to delivering efficacious IT solutions and services to the business (Butler Group, 2006b;Chung et al, 2005;Chung, et al, 2003;Masrek and Jusoff, 2009;Ness, 2005;Sääksjärvi, 2000;Sriprasert and Dawood, 2002). Additionally, the combination of having both technical infrastructure and human infrastructure in IT is proven by few studies that it enhances competitive advantage with their importance is found to be positive to the organisations' flexibility (Byrd and Turner, 2001;Chung et al, 2005;Fink and Neumann, 2007).…”