The Influence of

Business Managers'
IT Competence on
IT Project Success
Jacus Engelbrecht, Kevin Allan Johnston & Val Hooper

International Journal of Project Management

Sir. Nayaar Kazimi

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 Introduction

Keywords:
Competences; IT project management; IT capability; Business process
improvement

1- To explores the concept of IT competence of business managers

2- What the relative impact of each of the components of IT competence is
on IT project success.

The capability to execute Business Processes efficiently and continuously in

order to stay competitive, and its capability to handle new Business
Processes using IT.

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 Literature Review

The literature review covers two main areas

of research:

1. Business Managers'
IT Competence

2. IT Project Success

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Business
Managers' IT
Competence

The set of IT-related explicit

and tacit knowledge that a
business manager possesses
that enables him or her to
exhibit IT leadership in his or
her area of business.

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• A business manager's primary area of expertise may be in an
area other than IT, s/he can be classified as competent in IT if
they possess some degree of both IT knowledge and IT
experience.

• IT knowledge as being made up of five distinct areas of

knowledge.

• IT experience is made up of experience in IT projects; and

experience in the general management of IT.

• IT knowledge and skills are significantly considered during the

recruiting process, even if the target position is not IT-related.

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Project success has
been historically
defined as
a project that
Project success is a
meets its objectives
multi-dimensional
under budget and
construct
under schedule

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 Methodology
Framework, Sample, & Procedures

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- Quantitative Research Design
- Managers (108) from business sectors
(Fin, Min, Trans, Comm ..)

- Data collected through Survey

(Questionnaire)
- The questionnaire used consisted of 44 Qs
grouped into nine sections
- Non- probability Sampling Techniques
(snowball & purposive sampling)

- Emailed & asked for participating

- Respondent were from different hierarchy
level of companies (top, middle and supevervisory)
- Structural equation modelling (SEM), using a
Partial Least Squares (PLS) approach, was
employed for the data analysis.

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 Result & Discussion

The result of this research provide some interesting perspectives on the

impact of business managers' IT competence on project success.

The overall impact of business managers' IT competence on

project success is good.

Knowledge of systems development, knowledge of access to

IT knowledge, and experience in IT projects all demonstrated a
negative relationship with IT project success.
 Limitation & Future Direction

The sample size was relatively small

The way in which project success was measured could be

reassessed

From an academic perspective, this research has addressed a call

for attention to be paid to the contribution of individual business
managers' IT competence, and involvement, in IT project success.

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 Conclusion

The overall impact of business managers’ IT competence

was substantial

knowledge of applications was a very significant aspect of

IT competence in so far as the influence on project success
is concerned.

The measure of project success was new. It was an

improvement on the rather limited approach that has been
used previously.
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 Attitudes and
leadership
competences for
project success
Rodney Turner and Ralf Mu ̈ller

Baltic Journal of Management

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 Introduction

Keywords:
Emotional intelligence, Leadership, Project management

To investigate the relative importance of project managers’ attitudes

towards their project and their leadership competences for achieving
project success.

The capability to execute Business Processes efficiently and continuously in order

to stay competitive, and its capability to handle new Business Processes using IT.

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 Methodology

1-A worldwide web-based questionnaire was used

2- 400 project manager
3- the IQ, EQ, and MQ leadership competences of 400
project manager

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 Result & findings

Two types of results variances:

1-Variances in business results
2-Variances in project results
 Research limitations/implication

The results show the relative

importance of specific attitudes and
leadership competences for different
types of project success.

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Thank you.

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