Main Factors for ICT Adoption in the Czech SMES
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Main Factors for ICT Adoption in the Czech SMES
Original language description
The chapter brings outline the findings of a long term survey among thirty small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Czech Republic and will describe the im-portant factors related with barriers or adoption of information technology and information systems. This qualitative survey of the examined companies was made by using multiple interviews, monitoring the attitudes of the management to the information and communication technology (ICT), using of ICT as a competitive advantage, using of various types of applications and their impact on the organization?s performance. We can see that managers or owners of SMEs are, however, often afraid of organizational and financial demand of implementation of ICT. From the successfully growing companies we analyzed the importance of establishing: business, information and knowledge strategy. Without articulation of these strategies companies will with difficulty find their way in the current business environment. These three strategies have to be
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AE - Management, administration and clerical work
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Information systems for Small and medium-Sized enterprises
ISBN
978-3-642-38243-7
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
141-156
Number of pages of the book
420
Publisher name
Springer - Verlag
Place of publication
Berlin
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