• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.83-101
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• 2017

IT services are provided by many public institutions and companies in order to satisfy various needs of customers. As the modern IT systems become larger and more complex, it becomes more difficult for IT organizations to provide IT services. So, the IT organizations have applied or are planning to apply ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) in order to provide IT services systematically. The ITIL v3 was revised on July 2011 and have 5 categories, 37 processes, and 113 sub-processes. Therefore, it is known that it is very difficult to satisfy all processes of ITIL v3. If we can concentrate on the core processes of ITIL v3, we will be able to provide IT services more efficiently. The processes of ITIL v3 are defined as some processes influences other processes. Therefore, the core processes can be established using related techniques. We searched for previous research and related information, but we could not find any related research. In this study, we had applied the ANP (Analytic Network Process) techniques to find the core processes of ITIL v3. We expect that IT services will be provided more efficiently because we can be concentrate on the core processes of ITIL v3, which are the results of this study.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.189-207
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• 2007

The importance of IT service management to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of IT outsourcing practices or performance has been emphasized in the fields. Accordingly, several methodologies of IT service management have been adopted in a fashion. This case based research tries to analyze the effects of ITIL-based IT service management practice in a company on IT outsourcing performance. The case analysis shows that ITIL-based service management influences systems quality, information quality, and service quality in direct manner. But it does not influence systems use and systems satisfaction in a meaningful way. This study would help IT service managers construct IT service environment which improves the performance of IT outsourcing service delivery and also researchers set up research proposition in a concise way in the future.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.43-56
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• 2010

With the improvement of the Information Technology and the change of the business environment, the dependency of business on the Information Technology shows sharply increase. The Information Technology, however, is centered on the support of the technology viewpoint and thus the influence and effect of Information Technology on the business is hardly analyzed. The information system, therefore, requires not only technology-centric support management but service-oriented and systematic introduction of Information Technology Service Management(ITSM). The domestic ITSM market is currently expanding into variety of industries like finance, telecommunication, manufacturing and public service and at the same time the consequent reconstruction process of information system is continuously under way so as to qualify for the ISO 20000 certification. Especially the public organizations rapidly adopt the ITSM, in order to improve the quality of public service together with a goal of realizing the electronic government and of managerial innovation. The existing ITSM still, however, shows the tendency of depending only on the system construction and the management on the visible requirements whereas the overall process is not likely being improved. Hence, this study suggests, focusing on the life cycle of service, the model of ITSM based on Information Technology Infrastructure Library(ITIL) v3 which is appropriate for the public service. We expect, as stated in this study, that our ITSM model shall be widely accepted to the public agencies who promote the advance campaign by setting up the ITSM or reconstructing the existing process.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.21-39
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• 2013

As the utilization of information technology and the turbulence of technological change increase in organizations, the adoption of IT outsourcing also grows to manage IT resource more effectively and efficiently. In this new way of IT management technique, service level management(SLM) process becomes critical to derive success from the outsourcing in the view of end users in organization. Even though much of the research on service level management or agreement have been done during last decades, the performance of the service level management process have not been evaluated in terms of final objectives of the management efforts or success from the view of end-users. This study explores the relationship between SLM maturity and IT outsourcing success from the users' point of view by a analytical case study in four client organizations under an IT outsourcing vendor, which is a member company of a major Korean conglomerate. For setting up a model for the analysis, previous researches on service level management process maturity and information systems success are reviewed. In particular, information systems success from users' point of view are reviewed based the DeLone and McLean's study, which is argued and accepted as a comprehensively tested model of information systems success currently. The model proposed in this study argues that SLM process maturity influences information systems success, which is evaluated in terms of information quality, systems quality, service quality, and net effect proposed by DeLone and McLean. SLM process maturity can be measured in planning process, implementation process and operation and evaluation process. Instruments for measuring the factors in the proposed constructs of information systems success and SL management process maturity were collected from previous researches and evaluated for securing reliability and validity, utilizing appropriate statistical methods and pilot tests before exploring the case study. Four cases from four different companies under one vendor company were utilized for the analysis. All of the cases had been contracted in SLA(Service Level Agreement) and had implemented ITIL(IT Infrastructure Library), Six Sigma and BSC(Balanced Scored Card) methods since last several years, which means that all the client organizations pursued concerted efforts to acquire quality services from IT outsourcing from the organization and users' point of view. For comparing the differences among the four organizations in IT out-sourcing sucess, T-test and non-parametric analysis have been applied on the data set collected from the organization using survey instruments. The process maturities of planning and implementation phases of SLM are found not to influence on any dimensions of information systems success from users' point of view. It was found that the SLM maturity in the phase of operations and evaluation could influence systems quality only from users' view. This result seems to be quite against the arguments in IT outsourcing practices in the fields, which emphasize usually the importance of planning and implementation processes upfront in IT outsourcing projects. According to after-the-fact observation by an expert in an organization participating in the study, their needs and motivations for outsourcing contracts had been quite familiar already to the vendors as long-term partners under a same conglomerate, so that the maturity in the phases of planning and implementation seems not to be differentiating factors for the success of IT outsourcing. This study will be the foundation for the future research in the area of IT outsourcing management and success, in particular in the service level management. And also, it could guide managers in practice in IT outsourcing management to focus on service level management process in operation and evaluation stage especially for long-term outsourcing contracts under very unique context like Korean IT outsourcing projects. This study has some limitations in generalization because the sample size is small and the context itself is confined in an unique environment. For future exploration, survey based research could be designed and implemented.