DocumentCode
515358
Title
Why do public sector IT projects fail
Author
Ashraf, Javed ; Khattak, Naveed Sarfraz ; Zaidi, Ather Mohsin
Author_Institution
Coll. of Signals, Nat. Univ. of Sci. & Technol. (NUST), Rawalpindi, Pakistan
fYear
2010
fDate
28-30 March 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
Adoption of Information Technology (IT) can make a valuable contribution to development of public sector organisation. A reasonable size of budget is allocated every year to IT projects in public sector in both developed and developing countries. However, at present, the majority of public sector IT projects fails either totally or partially. The percentage of failure is even more in developing countries. A number of research studies have been conducted to identify the reasons of failures of IT projects in private and public sector in developed countries. However, very little work of similar type has been done in developing countries. In Pakistan also no such research work has been published. Based on case study of three projects, this paper studies the reasons leading to failure of IT projects initiatives in public sector of Pakistan.
Keywords
organisational aspects; project management; public administration; Pakistan; information technology; public sector IT projects; public sector organisation; Best practices; Chaos; Cities and towns; Educational institutions; Electronic government; Explosives; Humans; Information technology; Project management; Software performance;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Informatics and Systems (INFOS), 2010 The 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Cairo
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5828-8
Type
conf
Filename
5461752
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