Ananth Srinivasan (1987) has discussed organizational factors and the type of effects that
these make on the IS development process. These include:
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??? Available resources (both human and financial): The human resources affect the
development process positively, but increased financial resources are related to team
disagreement;
??? External influences on the development process: The degree of external influence on
the system development effort needs to be carefully monitored and controlled; and
??? Project team???s exposure to information systems: Systems exposure in the firm allows
an increase in the degree of awareness among project group members about the different
problems encountered by users and systems staff.
There are also some exogenous factors involved in influencing the development process
as discussed by Chris Sauer (1993). These factors are cognitive limits, technical process
environment, organizational politics, structure, and history. The environment is a collection
of some other factors such as suppliers, technology, customers, competitors, interests,
regulators, and culture.
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