A PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR THE ORGANIZATION READINESS ASSESSMENT OF IT INNOVATION ADOPTION IN E-GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENT

Document Type : Original Article

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Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Cairo - Egypt

Abstract

 Most of developing countries are now experiencing revolution in e-government to deliver fluent and simple services for their citizens. But, the organization will face three main problems if it decided to modernize its IT infrastructure; firstly, there are many solutions of new technologies, how to choose between them. Secondly, what is the impact of the factors affect on those solutions? Thirdly,what is the degree of readiness each of these factors to comply this new changing? Therefore, a systematic approach to measure organization readiness for adopting this new solution is needed, this paper proposes a practical framework helps in answering these questions and assists decision makers in estimating organization readiness for adopting all IT suggested solutions and to compare between these solutions. Whereas, it will use Multi-Criteria Decision Making method to rank the alternatives, taking into account all the attributes and factors affect the result, finally, it assess the degree of readiness of these factors to accept the preferred solution.

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