Minimizing information risks of losing value and justification – Issam M. Jallad, Suleiman Zayed

Minimizing information risks of losing value and justification – Issam M. Jallad, Suleiman Zayed

Abstract

“Oyomno (1996) argues that the sustainability of IT is dependent upon the degree of its demand, appropriateness to the user organization, and the availability of local capacity to sustain benefits achieved over time.”, being the benefits is the prime base on which a decision to keep and maintain the system or not our research target to produce a suggested theoretical frame work that can be tested and used to increase and maintain value of the information system in various types of organizations.

Literature review is the main source of information for developing this frame work and previous studies that is concerned with reducing risks of information loss of value, sustain methods and strategic alignment papers also are used, will not negate the fact that this frame work will remain theoretical and need testing.

Our frame work defines number of layers built on top of each other representing the how value could be sustained and increased; these layers are dependent on the main characteristics of sustainability such as long term, appropriateness, self sufficient…etc, among other factors, four layers are defined one is under financial domain, one under technological domain, two under business domain as this paper will show and explain.