Title: A practitioner's roadmap to learning the available tools for Information System Function management

Authors: Antonio Trigo, Joao Varajao, Joao Barroso

Addresses: Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestao de Oliveira do Hospital, Instituto Politecnico de Coimbra, Rua General Santos Costa, 3400-124 Oliveira do Hospital, Portugal. ' Departamento de Engenharias, Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, Apartado 1013, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal. ' Grupo de Investigacao em Engenharia do Conhecimento e Apoio a Decisao, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, R. Dr. Antonio Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal

Abstract: Organisations in the new emerging knowledge society are, now more than ever, becoming increasingly dependent on their Information System Function (ISF), which demands for a renewed attention to IT governance and to the available tools to support the ISF. In this paper, we present a roadmap-based framework that should provide IS managers and practitioners a useful method for not only choosing the appropriate tools to use in certain ISF activities, as well as, to learning the set of tools currently available for the ISF management.

Keywords: information system function; ISF activities; ISF support tools; IT governance; information technology; information systems education; ISF management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTCS.2009.026297

International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies, 2009 Vol.2 No.1, pp.29 - 40

Published online: 05 Jun 2009 *

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