• 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