Title: Information Technology readiness index for adoption of e-procurement

Authors: Sidhartha S. Padhi, Pratap K.J. Mohapatra

Addresses: Faculty of Operations Management, Management Development Institute Gurgaon, Gurgaon, Haryana – 122 007, India. ' Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal – 721 302, India

Abstract: This paper devises an Information Technology (IT)-readiness index for evaluating the present IT-related status of the government organisations for e-procurement adoption. Understanding the fact that there are many factors influencing the IT-readiness of an organisation, this paper is intended to measure the IT-readiness index considering the most important of these factors. In contrast to the majority of the indices in the literature, the proposed index is built upon defining and collecting data of IT-infrastructure, skilled-people, financial-support and effective-training programmes. Thereafter, IT-readiness index for 11 state government organisations was computed considering the employees| opinions and using multi-criteria decision making techniques.

Keywords: IT readiness; e-government; e-procurement adoption; FAHP; fuzzy AHP; analytical hierarchy process; SMART; simple multi-attribute ranking technique; information technology; electronic government; electronic procurement; IT infrastructure; skilled people; skills; financial support; training; multicriteria decision making; MCDM.

DOI: 10.1504/EG.2011.037695

Electronic Government, an International Journal, 2011 Vol.8 No.1, pp.20 - 39

Published online: 25 Dec 2010 *

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