THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILES

Abstract

The strength of IT (Information Technology) as a critical aspect of organizational success is related to today’s competitive business environment. Three significant changes have transformed such environments, that is to say: coming of a global economy, transformation of industrial economies/societies into service economies based upon information and knowledge and finally the transformation of the company’s business environment. Degree of organizational innovation and the capacity to absorb technology have been acknowledged as decisive factors for the implementation of Information Systems due to the fact that they can drastically affect the organizational environment. The main objective of this study is the identification of relationships between some variables that can be classified into characteristics of organizational culture and others that refer to profile aspects of the organizations. This study presents some factors of the organizational culture considered critical for the capacity of assimilating technologies. Research with directors in the area of Information Systems was undertaken, achieving some interesting results. Among them is noteworthy that the capacity of assimilating an information technology is strongly related to the size of the companies and to the high administration’s willingness to assume risks. This study enabled the identification of variables that may affect the success of the absorption of IT in an organization Conclusions and recommendations are based upon the results of this research.