Welcome to my lens. This site has been created to provide links, information, and/or collaboration within the areas of IT Management and other scholarly topics associated with my professional work as both a University Professor and as an IT practitioner and researcher.
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Dr. Ness (Lonny)
My Favorite Links
- JITM Article
- Title: Assessing the Relationships among IT Flexibility, Strategic Alignment and IT Effectiveness: [Dissertation] Study Overview and Finding.
- iJAMT Article
- Title: Exploring IT Flexibility and Increased Complexity - Is Management Prepared?
- Linkedin Profile
- My personal Linkedin profile. Send me a note if you are interested in collaborating or joining my network.
- Association for Sustainable Leadership
- A new association forcused on the area of sustainable leadership. I am serving as a peer-reviewer for the scholarly journal.
IT Flexibility Research Opportunities!
Interested in co-authoring on topics related to IT Flexibility?
I am actively seeking scholars, at all levels, to join me in this endeavor. If interested, please send me a note! Some of the topics that I am currently researching, or seeking co-authoring relationships with are:
- Building a conceptual model among IT flexibility and IT management dimensions
- The IT-business equilibrium model: Understanding the dynamics between business demand and IT supply
- A theoretical model for measuring IT flexibility
- IT outsourcing: Assessing the relationship between people and process flexibility
- IT flexibility and operational sustainability
- Understanding IT Flexibility Relative the Four Domain Architecture Model (Iyer & Gottlieb, 2004)
- Understanding IT Flexibility Relative to the Rank Equilibrium Model: Exploring the Five Attributes of Innovation and Rate of Adoption (McGriff, 2001)
CIO Magazine
Koch's IT Strategy
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Fetching RSS feed... please stand byPeople Flexibility vs Process Flexibility for Outsourced Services and Systems
As an extension to my doctoral dissertation on the relationship between IT flexibility and IT Effectiveness, it occurred to me that one of the reasons why IT outsourcing appears to be having difficulty experiencing sustained success is that while outsourcing increases flexibility associated with the people dimension of IT management (with corresponding cost reductions), in reality, the process dimension experiences decreased flexibility, in that, the outsourcer is now at the mercy of the outsourced vendor, who leverages standardized processes, systems, etc. to achieve optimal cost efficiencies and reduced operating margins. It is because of this increased rigidity (decreased flexibility) in the process dimension, that business leaders become disenfranchised as to the benefits associated with outsourcing, based on the people dimension alone.
Therefore, the poll question for consideration is as follows:
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
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Dr. Lawrence R. Ness earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration - Management at Northcentral University in 2005. Dr. Ness is currently a disserta...
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