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The IT Department as a Service Broker: A Qualitative Research

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Abstract

The accelerated increase of new IT suppliers and services is allowing organizations to easily access to specialized outsourced services. Consequently, IT departments are increasingly developing fewer IT services and relying more on external providers to satisfy the needs of their customers. This new context requires a change in the IT function, which should move from its traditional role of service builder and operator to a new role of service integrator and broker. However, IT managers do not know in most of the cases which are the capabilities and IT expert roles and skills required in the IT area to implement this new role. To cope with this lack, we propose a management model built in two steps: (i) a review of the literature that help us to identify and analyze the current contributions in the IT service brokering area, and (ii) a qualitative research that includes a focus group and a survey to IT professionals in order to validate the findings made in the literature review. The presented model aims at establishing the basis for a complete approach to help IT organizations to adopt the IT service broker role.

Keywords

  • IT unit
  • Focus group
  • Survey
  • Outsourcing
  • Intermediator
  • Integrator
  • Aggregator

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  1. Department of Systems and Computing Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

    Linda Rodriguez & Oscar Avila

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    Dr. Adrian Paschke

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Rodriguez, L., Avila, O. (2019). The IT Department as a Service Broker: A Qualitative Research. In: Abramowicz, W., Paschke, A. (eds) Business Information Systems Workshops. BIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 339. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04849-5_36

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