Affiliations: [a] School of Business Administration, Jeonju University, Jeonju, Jeonbuk, Korea. E-mail: [email protected] | [b] Department of Accounting and Information Systems, School of Business, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS, USA. E-mails: [email protected], [email protected]
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Corresponding author: Joseph Wen, School of Business, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS 66801, USA. E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: Information technology (IT) prioritization is the subject of many research activities in both academia and industry. There has been little discussion, to date, of the potential impact of inter-related technologies on prioritization decisions. Most studies have assumed that all technologies are mutually exclusive and that there are no relationships among the technologies. It is likely, however, that some technologies are inter-related at least to some degree. For example, computer hardware and electronics or Internet and information security are considered to be closely related. The overall rankings of low-demand technologies may, therefore, be different when their relationships to high-demand technologies are considered. This paper presents a scoring method that incorporates the correlations of information technologies in its prioritization process. In a case study, this method enabled an Asian governmental agency to successfully prioritize and allocate resources.
