Browsing by Author "Ajayi, Binyamin Adeniyi"

Information Technology Governance (ITG) is the deliberate behaviour adopted by senior management in the corporate design of Information Technology (IT) and for enterprise use to enable continuous organisation performance. Research in recent times has been reporting issues on ITG phenomenon in the organisation. However, studies on educational institutions, especially in developing nations, are scarce despite the increase in recognition of the importance of ITG. Moreover, few embed theoretical underpinnings to extend knowledge. This study, based on organisation learning and contingency theories, explores how universities achieve performance through designed ITG. It examines antecedents of ITG absorptive capacity and its influence on performance in the context of developing nations’ universities. Using a sequential mixed method research design, it carries out an exploratory and correlational study. It avails itself to documents, websites and interview sessions with executive and senior managers, in a phenomenological case study on International Islamic University Malaysia. It applies the thematic coding style to generate themes relative to analysed documents. The themes and knowledge from past studies informed the design of the questionnaire. It administers the questionnaire purposively and randomly on strata of business and IT functions senior level managers drawn from seven public and three private universities in Malaysia. Subjecting the data to Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), a scale of 44 items, content valid and reliable, was found to be parsimonious enough in explaining seven dimensions of the three variables of ITG model consisting of ITG mechanism, ITG absorptive capacity and organisation ITG performance. Using the Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) techniques on these three variables reveals the mediating effect of ITG absorptive capacity. ITG absorptive capacity fully mediates, and better explains the effect of ITG mechanism on organisation ITG performance. The resultant model, as well as the multiple-item scale, can be adapted in future to study the systemic role of ITG on organisation performance. This study suggests that proper ITG behaviour results in enhanced business and IT knowledge, which in turn influences organisation’s ability to perform. The report identifies some implications of the study and future directions.

Information systems (IS) services have become a global phenomenon, not restricted to business oriented organisations but also to educational institutions as well. However, while other organisations have adopted continuous efforts in seeing to effective deployment of IT in Malaysia and around the world can such situation be true of the Universities which stand at the apex echelon of Higher Education Institutions (HEI). The focus of the study become necessary given the nature of IT funding in the last two decades and the resultant fears of organisation’s Stakeholders to continue to invest hugely in that direction. In attempt to void this challenge, Information Technology Governance (ITG) evolved as a means by which Management exercise control on IT resources to align same with the business goals. This study explore the issues of ITG in the International Islamic University, Malaysia by conducting interviews sessions with the IT service provider (Information Technology Division) and extracting facts from available archives to carry out its finding. It was discovered that the Management control expected to be exercised on the IT resources of the university was somehow not there and this, has not given room for proper IT governance. The result has been that IT resources are not adequately monitored to enable the expectant IT performance.