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Finding Our Future: A Research Agenda for the Research Enterprise



Chapter 3. Responding to the Challenges: A Thematic Research Agenda

Key research questions

  • What are the salient predictors of success and failure in IT applications in organizations and how can they be made visible and actionable?
  • How can organizations involved in grants-supported research best collaborate on the conceptualization, design, and testing of shared information systems?
  • How should the costs of shared information systems be distributed across multiple organizations?
  • What return-on-investment models are suitable for multi-organizational systems?
  • What IT investment strategies allow both stable current operations and reasonably quick adoption of new tools to improve performance?