{"title":"Investments in E-Government: A Benefit Management Case Study","authors":"T. Fernandes, J. Gomes, M. Romão","doi":"10.4018/IJEGR.2017070101","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"TheexpensesinInformationSystemsandInformationTechnology(IS/IT)representasubstantial shareinorganizations’budgets.However,IS/ITinvestmentprojectsseemtocontinuetoshowreduced successrates.TheBenefitsManagement(BM)hasgainedrelevanceasaway,notonly,tounderstand thesefailures,butalsoasatoolavailabletoorganizationstoimprovethesuccessofIS/TIinvestments. TheobjectiveofthisarticleistounderstandhowBMcanbeappliedinIS/ITinvestmentsinthePublic Administration(PA)andhelptoleveragethebenefitsoftheseinvestments.Acasestudywasconducted usingane-GovernmentprojectinthePortuguesePA.ThestudyshowedhowaBMapproachcan beappliedinthisenvironmentandalsoidentifiedsomedifficultiesthatmustbeconsidered.Several benefits,thatwerenotforeseen,wereidentifiedandevaluated,orproposedsomecriteriafortheir evaluation,highlighting,thisway,thetruecontributionofIS/ITinvestmentsindeliveringservices tocitizensandincreasingpublicorganizationsperformance. KEywoRdS Benefits Management, Benefits Realization, e-Government, e-Government Investments, IS/IT Investments, Maturity Models, Programme Management, Project Management","PeriodicalId":170341,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Electron. Gov. Res.","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Int. J. Electron. Gov. Res.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJEGR.2017070101","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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