2006年中国IT服务管理回顾与展望

<正>IT服务管理(ITSM)作为一种管理IT的理念和方法论,从其产生、形成、发展到实施,已走过近20年的时间,IT服务管理的重要性受到世界范围内越来越多企业的认识。虽说IT服务管理在中国的发展历程比较短,但现在有越来越多的眼球关注中国的IT服务管理这个领域,与前几年相比,2006年中国IT服务管理取得了长足的发展和进步。     

IT服务企业项目财务管理要点探讨

由于信息技术产业的特殊性,根据当前的市场发展状况,中国大中型IT服务企业急需建立自己的财务管理模型和应用管理会计,通过面向客户的全过程化的项目财务管理控制,协助企业作好项目决策,提供定价策略,控制项目成本提高效益,控制项目财务风险,总结评价项目收益和成本,本文试图从分析IT服务企业的特点和IT项目管理的特征入手,重点分析在IT项目意向阶段、项目立项阶段、项目合同签定阶段、项目合同执行阶段、项目结项阶段这一过程中的财务管理的要点及方法.     

6σ在ITILv3的问题管理流程中的应用

企业信息化进程的加速给IT组织提供的服务提出了越来越高的要求,IT服务管理成为企业信息化的新方向。IT基础设施知识库(ITIL,Information Technology Infrastructure Library)是基于国际标准ISO20000的IT服务管理的最佳实践指南。如今,基于ITIL的IT服务管理方法已运用于金融、制造业、电信、IT、能源等多个行业。其中,问题管理模块旨在企业在解决一类问题后,类似或者相同的问题重复出现的问题。问题管理的效率直接影响IT服务管理的质量,ITIL作为IT服务管理的最佳实践只告诉实施者"做什么",而在质量管理方面,具有精确化管理特点的6σ管理方法解决的正是怎么做的问题。本文针对服务运营模块中的问题管理,探索6σ管理方法在ITILv3中的应用,对保证IT服务质量的稳固提高有重要意义。     

基于软件开发企业的IT服务规划及ITSM系统设计

国内IT企业(特别是软件开发企业)应用ITSM提高服务质量和市场竞争能力,仍然缺乏具有实际参考价值的成功案例。广东中望软件公司通过IT服务规划与实施项目,研究如何在软件开发企业中应用ITSM和ITIL最佳实践,提出了进行IT服务规划与实施的基本方法和应用模式,将IT服务规划的方法概括为PPMT模型,即对流程、组织、管理、工具四个方面进行设计,并将实施IT服务规划的策略概括为"管理分步、功能分期、观念重建、持续改进",在IT服务管理成熟后,可将其他产品和业务整合到统一的IT服务管理体系中,最终实现"以服务为中心"的运营模式。     

“云计算”时代下电力行业IT服务管理的应用思考

随着电力企业信息化程度越来越高,自动化系统规模日益庞大,传统的IT管理方法已经不能满足企业IT管理需求。文章认为,ITSM应用于电力行业能有效地解决当前电力行业IT系统管理中存在的问题;云计算技术的出现为IT服务管理提供了一个新的基础设施平台。在以ITIL为核心组织架构的IT服务中,搭建以"云计算"为平台的IT基础设施,将有利于提供电力企业更高稳定性、高质量的IT服务。     

服务监管框架下IT服务与绩效管理体系的建设

IT运维服务的质量问题越来越引起相关客户和服务提供商的重视,对IT运维服务外包项目进行监督管理是一种较新的探索。建立三权分立的运维服务组织管理框架、采用螺旋迭代式项目实施策略,对IT运维服务监督管理及其咨询项目的成功实施具有一定的积极作用。PPMTC运维服务管理实施框架和四维一体运维服务绩效管理模型是IT运维服务管理及其绩效管理体系建设的有效方法,通过其管理体系的建立,可从根本上解决IT运维服务的质量问题。     

银行信息技术外包浅析

本文阐述了信息技术外包逐步成为银行IT应用和发展的必然性,由于银行服务外包在战略规划、成本控制、转移风险、增强核心竞争力等方面的优势,其服务外包的范围和规模都得到了空前发展。详细分析了银行IT外包服务的特点,在银行实施IT外包服务方面提出几点建议。     

关于IT运维服务管理中知识管理的思考

本文主要对IT运维管理过程中的知识管理进行了探讨,首先描述了根据与流程的相关行对知识的分类以及知识在IT运维服务管理中的价值体现,进而以基于ITIL典型的四层架构运维管理系统为例,介绍如何在IT运维服务管理中从技术、流程、人员等三方面着手,开展知识管理,以有效提高IT运维管理水平、降低运维成本、实现知识价值的最大化。     

银行信息技术外包浅析

本文阐述了信息技术外包逐步成为银行IT应用和发展的必然性,由于银行服务外包在战略规划、成本控制、转移风险、增强核心竞争力等方面的优势,其服务外包的范围和规模都得到了空前发展。详细分析了银行IT外包服务的特点,在银行实施IT外包服务方面提出几点建议。     

符合ITIL流程规范的IT服务管理工具JP1

随着信息化的深入发展,市场对于IT服务管理的需求不断加大。大量的信息和资源碍于管理水平低下的原因,无法发挥应有效率和价值,甚至已经转变成IT恶疾,无情耗用巨大成本和资源。信息孤岛的整合、任务的协同虽然是下一步的理想目标,但是巨大的风险总是让人难下决心。如何实施好IT服务管理,规避整合风险,成为整个行业关注的焦点     

Impact of IT Service Management Frameworks on the IT Organization

Over 90 percent of companies are estimated to use IT Service Management (ITSM) frameworks, yet there is little research on their benefits to the Information Technology (IT) department and the business units. An international survey of 491 firms was conducted to assess the benefits of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), the de-facto ITSM framework, specifically on how these benefits evolve as companies increase their adoption of the ITIL model. Also studied are the perception of challenges of the implementation and the number of ITIL processes implemented in relation to the progress of the adoption of ITIL. Results indicate that as the maturity of implementation increases, the perception of challenges decreases. Findings also show that as the maturity of implementation increases, the number of realized benefits increases, as well as the number of implemented ITIL processes. Implications for practitioners and researchers are also discussed.     

A curriculum model for IT infrastructure management in undergraduate business schools

As information technology infrastructure becomes strategic to organizations, the author examines business-school programs that educate future infrastructure analysts. Information systems (IS) 2010 and information technology (IT) 2008 curriculum models are used to survey courses required by telecommunications and IT infrastructure programs in business schools. Of 525 Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business–accredited schools, 259 have IS/IT programs and 18 have telecommunications and infrastructure-related programs. IT Infrastructure, Networking-Advanced, and IT Security are the top three infrastructure-related courses. Programs also require courses including IS Project Management; Social and Professional Issues; and IS Strategy, Management and Acquisition. Data collected are used to develop a new curriculum model of IT infrastructure management program that can be offered by business schools.     

中印两国IT服务外包国际竞争力比较研究

为了对中印两国的IT服务外包的竞争力进行比较全面地分析和评价,从两国IT业发展的现状、IT服务外包的现状进行比较,并运用贸易竞争优势指数（TCI）、显性比较优势指数（RCA）和IT服务贸易开放度（SO）三种指标体系对两国的IT服务外包业进行定量的分析。得出结论,印度IT业由于国内市场需求不足且增长缓慢,依赖于承接国外的离岸外包,而中国的IT业服务外包多是在国内进行的在岸外包。因此,中国要发展自己的IT业,必须立足国内市场,结合自身实际情况,制定合理的发展战略,积极发展自己的IT离岸外包。     

基于区位商法的江苏高技术服务业竞争力分析

当前,江苏高技术服务业的比较优势行业主要集中在软件业、科技交流和推广服务业等领域;潜在优势行业主要集中在研究与试验发展服务业等知识、技术密集型产业当中;计算机服务业、专业技术服务业以及电信和其他信息传输服务业等产业发展尚且不足,地质勘查业则还处于发展的起步阶段。江苏省应继续做大具有领先地位的软件业产业规模;进一步加强发展科技交流和推广服务业,着力提升研究与试验发展服务业水平,加快发展使其成为优势产业;力争迅速提高计算机服务业、专业技术服务业、电信和其他信息传输服务业的比较优势,并进一步培育地质勘查业,使其尽快形成自身的竞争比较优势。     

Personal Values’ Influence on the Ethical Dimension of Decision Making

Personal values have long been associated with individual decision behavior. The role played by personal values in decision making within an organization is less clear. Past research has found that managers tend to respond to ethical dilemmas situationally. This study examines the relationship between personal values and the ethical dimension of decision making using Partial Least Squares (PLS) analysis. The study examines personal values as they relate to five types of ethical dilemmas. We found a significant positive contribution of altruistic values to ethical decision making and a significant negative contribution of self-enhancement values to ethical decision making. Dr. David J. Fritzsche is a retired Professor of Management and Organization at The Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley. Among the numerous journals in which he published are Journal of Business Ethics, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Macromarketing, and Simulation & Games. He is the co-author of the Business Policy Game: A Strategic Management Simulation. He authoured the book Business Ethics: A Global and Managerial Perspective (McGraw-Hill, 1997). Dr. Effy Oz is a Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at The Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley, where he teaches courses on IT management, ethical issues in IT, and business-stakeholder relations. He has authored several textbooks including five editions of Management Information Systems (Course Technology Inc., 1998–2006), Foundations of E-Commerce (Prentice-Hall, 2002) and, Ethics for the Information Age (McGraw-Hill, 1994), and a practitioner’s book (The Manager’s Bible, Ivy League Publishing, 1998). He has also published research articles in academic and professional journals, among which are MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Information & Management, Decisions Sciences, OMEGA, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Computer Information Systems. Dr. Oz is a member of the editorial boards of Encyclopaedia of Information Systems, Information & Management, and Journal of Global Information Technology Management. He is a frequent speaker at IT conferences, has conducted research on a number of IT topics, and has been quoted in numerous media including Computerworld, MSNBC, and the Los Angeles Times. He was awarded the 1997 Notable Contribution to the Information Systems Literature Award by the Information Systems Section of the American Accounting Association, the 1999-2000 Distinguished Faculty Research Award at Penn State Great Valley, and Best Paper Award at the Annual Global Information Technology Conference of 2004.     

Developing Maturity Models for IT Management

Maturity models are valuable instruments for IT managers because they allow the assessment of the current situation of a company as well as the identification of reasonable improvement measures. Over the last few years, more than a hundred maturity models have been developed to support IT management. They address a broad range of different application areas, comprising holistic assessments of IT management as well as appraisals of specific subareas (e. g. Business Process Management, Business Intelligence). The evergrowing number of maturity models indicates a certain degree of arbitrariness concerning their development processes. Especially, this is highlighted by incomplete documentation of methodologies applied for maturity model development.     

Emergent Internet Technology Applications for Relationship Marketing

Abstract

In this paper we bring together the concepts of Relationship Marketing (RM) in the marketing literature and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in Information Systems (IS) literature to identify and assess emergent Internet-based Information Technologies (IT) that add value for consumers. We focus on the customer's perspective by identifying the key benefits consumers seek when they enter into IT-mediated interactions with sellers. We review the IS-CRM literature and identify 8 critical IT categories that have the potential for changing how buyers and sellers establish and maintain relationships in the Internet era. Subsequently, we introduce a conceptual model, which considers the nature of the consumer's involvement with sellers through emergent Internet-based technologies in juxtaposition to potential technology-based benefits to consumers. We then discuss the implications of this proposed direction. Finally, we discuss a future research agenda, which considers the use of IT in relationship management.     

A taxonomy of standards in the service sector: Theoretical discussion and empirical test

Based on the peculiarities of services the different typologies of service standards are discussed. Against this background, a survey among European service companies addressed the question of in which service-related categories formal and informal standards are implemented. In total 364 European service companies responded to the on-line survey. Relying on the assessment of the importance of the various service-related standardisation aspects, it was possible to identify a taxonomy of service standards containing five clusters of service standards ‘Service Management’, ‘Service Employee’, ‘Service Delivery’, ‘Customer Interaction’, and ‘Data Flows and Security’, which correspond very closely to the ex ante applied typology derived from the literature.     

Information Technology Professionals’ Perceived Organizational Values and Managerial Ethics: An Empirical Study

This paper summarizes the results of an analysis of empirical data on ethical attitudes of professionals and managers in relation to organizational core values in the Information Technology (IT) industry. This study investigates the association between key organizational values as independent variables and the ethical attitudes of IT managers as dependent variables. The study also delves into differences among IT non-managerial professionals, mid-level managers, and upper-level managers in their ethical attitudes and perceptions. Research results indicated that IT professionals from mechanistic organizations were much more likely to report – compared to those from organic organizations – that managers in their corporate environment engage in behaviors considered unethical and that successful managers were more unethical relative to unsuccessful managers. There were significant differences between the upper-level managers and the mid-level managers and between the mid-level managers and the IT non-managerial professionals on certain key ethical issues. This paper discusses the conceptual framework, hypotheses, research methodology, data analysis, implications of the findings, and suggested areas of further research. K. Gregory Jin, D.B.A, is Professor of the MIS Department, Ancell School of Business, Western, Connecticut State University. He has published numerous conference papers, chapters, and articles in such areas as MIS professional ideology and ethics, communication and control, behavioral issues in information systems development, role of IT and human factors in business process reengineering, service learning in database design, systems theory, MIS participant action research strategy, and political factors in IT management. He has more than twenty years of MIS administrative and professional experiences. He holds a D.B.A. in Information Technology Management from George Washington University. He is a member of the Association of Information Technology Professionals and a former member of DSI. Ronald G. Drozdenko, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Marketing Department, Ancell School of Business, Western Connecticut State University. He is also the founding Director of the Center for Business Research at the Ancell School. Dr. Drozdenko has co-directed more than 100 proprietary research projects since 1978 for the marketing and research and development departments of several corporations, including major multinationals. These projects were in the areas of strategic planning, marketing research, product development, direct marketing, and marketing database analysis. Dr. Drozdenko co-authored Optimal Database Marketing: Strategy, Development and Data Mining and also has published professional and academic articles and book chapters. He holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Missouri and is a member of the American Marketing Association, the Society for Consumer Psychology, and the Academy of Marketing Sciences. Richard A. Bassett, D.P.S, is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at Western Connecticut State University. He was founder and CEO of Bassett Computer Systems, Inc. for 17 years where he was involved with the design and implementation of information systems for hundreds for small and midsized businesses. He has authored several papers and articles in such areas as web-design as a web-master, web-based course design, the security threats and concerns faced by telecommuters, minimal steps required to secure a Local Area Network and the technology decision challenges which growing companies face. He is actively involved with technology endeavors of numerous nonprofit organizations including: The Children’s Center, Bridges of Milford, North Haven Rotary, Communicare, and the Amber Alert System. He holds a D.P.S. in Computing from Pace University.     

Student experiences with service learning in a Business Ethics course

Service learning provides many challenges and opportunities for the instructor who wishes to test its potential. This paper looks at some of the promise for service learning in the undergraduate Business Ethics course and describes one experience with this project. Quotations from student journals and reflective papers are utilized to present the student's perspective on the project. Some suggestions are offered for insuring effective service learning in courses like Business Ethics.John Kohls is an Associate Professor of Management at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He teaches courses in Business Ethics; Business, Government and Society; Strategic Planning and Policy, and other areas of Management. He has published a number of articles in these areas. He also conducts Management Development workshops including Ethics, Organizational Culture, and Leadership.