학술논문

Asset approach to IT cost management in industrial companies
Document Type
Report
Source
Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business. Sept, 2009, Vol. 3, p101, 3 p.
Subject
Cost reduction
Company business management
Econometric models
Cost control
Language
English
ISSN
1804-0519
Abstract
The article introduces the authors' estimation method for measuring the current level of information technologies in companies by four aspects (hardware, software, IT services, and telecommunication equipment) using the proposed original indicators. On the example of 50 sample Russian industrial companies the authors have built and tested an econometric model, which allows to measure how IT costs are affected by such factors as: the current level of IT development, net profit value, number of employees, general wages, salaries of IT specialists, percentage of qualified workers. JEL Classifications: M15; UDC: 338.001.36 Key words: IT management, IT development, IT cost management, industrial companies.
IT costs measurement and management is a complex process. Many scientists and experts have been investigating this subject for many years. Despite a fifty-year history of both Russian and international [...]