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Planning and development of information technology (IT) in educational institutions consists of a set of activities aimed at identifying what the future information architecture of an education center should be. During this process, the IT applications that can most effectively contribute to the achievement of the center’s mission and objectives are identified; the order in which the candidate applications are developed is also prioritized, and the volume of investment in them is decided, as well as the most appropriate development methodology to ensure the success of the project.
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There are numerous evidences that demonstrate the need to carry out organized processes of IT planning and development in organizations (Marabelli and Galliers 2017; Kumar 2015). Sometimes this process is not carried out in an orderly manner; money is invested in technology to solve specific problems that may not be useful in the long term for responding to information needs. In...
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Rodríguez-Díaz, J. (2019). IT in Educational Institutions, Planning and Development of. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60013-0_118-1
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