Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering (산업경영시스템학회지)

Society of Korea Industrial and System Engineering (한국산업경영시스템학회)
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Improvement of Project Competency for Small IT Companies through SWOT-AHP Analysis

SWOT-AHP 분석을 통한 소규모 IT업체의 프로젝트 수행 역량 개선

  • Lee, Min-Kyung (Major in Project Management, Graduate school of Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Kang, Chang-Wook (Dept. of Industrial And Management Engineering, Hanyang University)
  • 이민경 (한양대학교 공학대학원 프로젝트관리학 전공) ;
  • 강창욱 (한양대학교 산업경영공학과)
  • Received : 2018.08.06
  • Accepted : 2018.09.19
  • Published : 2018.09.30
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Abstract

In the SW industry, the diversification of global markets and technology trends are changing due to the emergence of new services, and IT companies are in need of strategic change different from the previous one. In this study, SWOT analysis was performed by extracting the internal environmental factors and external environmental factors through the previous studies to improve the project performance competence of small IT companies, and the SWOT Matrix was reconstructed through the pairwise comparison. Based on this, the purpose of this research was to propose the project performance competency improvement plans for small IT companies based on importance and priority, and the following four strategies were derived from the result of SWOT-AHP analysis. SO strategy was drawn in direction to invest R & D in new SW industry to enhance technology competitiveness of SMEs in order to develop SMEs, and in order to secure competitiveness of SW industry, WO strategy is drawn the cultivation of professional technical manpower through SW policy. ST Strategy presented technical management through SW system improvement policy to improve SW environment, and WT Strategy presented awareness training on the construction and necessity of project management system construction. Using the strategies presented in this study, it is expected that the managers of small IT firms will be presented as references to measure the performance competence factors of current organizations and company organizations.

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