Users’ Readiness Evaluation in Adopting Integrated Information Systems in the Finance Field

Abstract

The adoption of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the integrated concept has already became a need to the company or organization that is willing to gain competitive advantages as a competitive weapon. However, this adoption is not always smooth because of facing challenges. One of the bigest challenge in adopting ICT is the readiness of ICT users. The users' unreadiness will create resistence toward ICT and further impact will fail ICT adoption itself. Moreover, it can create inharmony environment in the company or organization.The purpose of this research is also to evaluate the technology readiness of the users in the process of adopting ICT in economic field in Finance Directory UGM, estimated from the positive and negative belief of the users toward the technology with adopting method TRI. The result of this research shows that generally, the readiness of SI users in Finance Directory UGM is in medium level, eventhough the users tend to have no comfort feeling and high discomfort feeling toward technology users.