EPSRC Grant Reference: GR/R08025/01
NETWORK: Network for Information Systems Evaluation (N-ISE)

N-ISE EPSRC Abstract
N-ISE is motivated by companies increasing expenditure on Information Systems (IS) as enablers to deliver competitive advantage. However, such investments increasingly bring new portfolios of benefits, costs and risks, with N-ISE proposing a forum to discuss and debate these changing natures and impact on evaluation processes [normative and formative]. Hence, contributing towards increasing the efficient utilisation and effective deployment of organisational resources. N-ISE will encourage and support the transfer of ideas and knowledge surrounding IS evaluation, discuss relevant techniques and methods for both pre-and-post implementation evaluation, and provide insights into evaluation between parties, disciplines, universities and industry.

Starts: 01 December 2000

Ends: 31 May 2004

£ Value: 62,968 

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EPSRC Grant Reference: GR/T27020/01
NETWORK: Network for eGovernment Integration and Systems Evaluation (eGISE)

eGISE EPSRC Abstract
E-government has rapidly become a political imperative at local, national and international level. With the growth of the Internet and public access to information, government agencies at all levels rushed to publish strategies in the mid-1990s that created a muddle of information and policy with no clearly defined audience. Nonetheless, between 2002-2006, eGovernment projects will cost UK taxpayers 7.4bn and failures may have disastrous consequences. At present evaluation is mainly volumetric or case study coverage with only vague notions of benefit to the citizen. To make adoption more successful, there is a need to better understand the issues surrounding eGovernment, in particular gaining a clearer insight into the barriers, benefit realisations, risk management or mitigation and cost management, which together provide decision makers with a realistic insight into eGovernment infrastructure planning. The purpose of the eGISE network is to promote national debate and highlight research strategies to increase understanding of eGovernment, and the processes involved in evaluating decisions surrounding human, organisational and technical components of Information Society Technologies (IST). In particular, the network will explore IST strategies and their embedded mechanisms for evaluation and integration within government and the service or public sector.

Starts: 1 November 2004

Ends: 31 October 2007

£ Value: 58,011

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