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Adoption of Green Information Technology in Sri Lankan Banks
(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Fernando, M.I.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
It is important for organizations to operate within a certain level of equilibrium where both financial and environmental performance of a business are achieved while remaining competitive. The notion of Green Information Technology is gaining considerable attention and emphasis due to its impact on cost effectiveness of business undertakings and environmental sustainability. The IT sector has taken this initiative quite early and has been working towards a sustainable development model which was later termed as the ―Green Information Technology‖. Today, Green IT has evolved to become one of the major IT initiatives that focus towards ecological sustainability. The ―Green IT Readiness‖ has sprung up as a framework as a result of this initiative to guide organization to achieve their Green objectives. The objective of this research was to study the factors that could be used to promote Green IT adoption in Sri Lankan banking sector. After critically reviewing related literature, four effective factors were identified to promote Green IT adoption, which are Awareness, Stakeholder Pressure, Administration and Technology adoption. A conceptual framework was developed using above factors and a questionnaire was developed to collect data. Employees of IT Divisions of Lanka Clear and three banks were selected for data collection. Online survey was carried out among employees of selected organizations through e-mails to validate the proposed conceptual framework. The data analysis concluded that Administration (r=0.677) and Technology adoption (r=0.673) have a Strong Positive Relationship while Awareness and Stakeholder Pressure (r=0.557) are having a Positive Moderate Relationship with Green IT adoption. Administration had the highest and Stakeholder Pressure had the lowest correlation values with Green IT adoption.
Analysing mobility patterns of people to determine the best transportation method
(Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Senanayake, J.M.D.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
With the technological enhancements related to Internet, Wireless Communication, Big Data Analytics, Sensor-based Data, and Machine Learning; new paradigms are enabled for processing large amount of data which are collected from various sources. In the past decades, both coarse and fine-grained sensor data had been used to perform location-driven activity inference. In recent years, GPS phone and GPS enabled PDA become prevalent in people’s daily lives. With such devices people become more capable than ever of tracing their outdoor mobility and using locationbased applications. Based on the collected data from these GPS enabled devices with the help of IoT related to user mobility lots of research areas are opened. In this research the data related to user locations when users do any outdoor movements is collected using the mobile devices that are connected to the Internet and is mined using data mining techniques and come up with an algorithm to model & analyse those big data to identify mobility pattern, traffic prediction, transportation method satisfaction etc. The data for this research will be collected using a mobile application which has to be installed in smart devices like smart phones, tablet PCs etc. In this application the user has to enter the activity that he or she currently doing and the method of transportation & the users' opinion on the transportation method if he is doing some sort of travelling. The GPS coordinates (longitude & latitude) as GPS trajectories along with the time stamp and the date will be automatically acquired from the users' IoT device. A cloud based storage will be used to store collected data. Since the dataset is going to be a huge one, there can be data which contains outlier values due to the uncertainty of the mobile network coverage and the GPS coverage of the devices. Therefore, these data should be properly cleaned when doing data mining activities otherwise these data will lead to incorrect results such as wrong traffic prediction in certain places if several users are stuck in the same GPS coordinates for a while. Not only that but also when it comes to the user satisfaction, it might lead to generate incorrect outcome if the users in the sample will not enter their satisfaction accurately. This can be avoided by comparing cluster wise users with the consideration of the location and the transportation method. We can get the average opinion of the users and take it as the satisfaction of the transportation method in that cluster. Using the final results of this research the government can also be benefited if we selected the sample users well with mixing all the types of people and by providing necessary information for planning smart cities.
Behavioral Intentions of Healthcare Staff with respect to ICT in Western Region of Sri Lanka
(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Dileep, A.H.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
Computers are increasingly widespread, influencing many aspects of our social and work lives, as well as many of our leisure activities. As more tasks involve human computer interaction, computer skills and knowledge have become more positively correlated with both occupational and personal success. In most parts of the globe, especially the developed nations, computers are used in almost all spheres of life. Healthcare staffs are change agents in healthcare sector. They are key drivers who play crucial role in ICT integration in healthcare. The aim of this study is to examine the behavioral intentions of healthcare staff with respect to ICT in western region of Sri Lanka. A sample of 100 healthcare staff was assessed for their behavioral intentions with respect to ICT using a Likert type questionnaire. There were 64 females (64%) participants and 36 were male (36%). The average number of years of computer use was 8.46 years (SD=5.281). There were 84% participants strongly agree and 16% participant were agree for use ICT regularly for their official work in healthcare. In detail there were 78% male participant and 88% female participant strongly agree for use ICT regularly for their official work in healthcare. Behavioral intentions of healthcare staff with respect to ICT have positive responses in western region of Sri Lanka. The results of this study showed no gender differences among healthcare staff on behavioral intentions with respect to ICT. They are willing to accept, integration of ICT to the process of healthcare systems. This study clearly depict that behavioral intention of healthcare staff with respect to ICT are not the bottleneck for integration of ICT to the State hospitals in western region of Sri Lanka.
Effect of information system resources and capabilities on firm performance: Evidence from apparel industry
(Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Udawaththa, P.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
Information systems (IS) play a vital role in almost every organization compared with all other resources in a firm. Organizations mostly rely on information systems to carry out and manage their operations, interact with their customers and suppliers and compete in the marketplace. So examining the contribution of IS resources to firm performance is critical in the current environment. In apparel industry, Information Technology (IT) with IS has become an integral part. Like service industries, few departments of the apparel industry are fully depended on IT or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems. There are so many recent cases in the world which provides us better evidence on how critical IT is in an apparel industry. Since the apparel industry being the no one leading contributor to the export revenue , understanding whether and how IS resources have affected the firm performance in apparel industry is an important research area to carry out a study, as it allows the management to know the value of their IS investments. Some research studies that have been carried out so far posit a direct relationship between IS resources/capabilities with firm performance, while others have questioned the direct-effect argument and emphasized that IS resources/capabilities are likely to affect firm performance only when they are deployed to create unique complementarities with other firm resources. So the main objective of the research is to identify the effects of IS resources and capabilities on firm performance in apparel industry. An empirical test will be performed on a selected sample with reference to the apparel industry in Sri Lanka in-order to achieve the objective mentioned in the research. As an initial step, existing information system resources and the capabilities in each selected firm will be identified. Then the extent to which IS resources are deployed in the firm will be identified. A quantitative methodology will be employed. Data will be collected through surveys using questionnaires on a five-point Likert scale, interviews with IS specialists, system analysts and data administrators relevant to each firm. The conceptual model that has been developed referring to literature will be tested by the questionnaire for applicability. Questionnaires will be based on the variables and their indicators identified from the literature. Questionnaire will be tested with a sample for validity and will be based on self-assessed scaled items. Data collected through descriptive methods will be analyzed using descriptive statistic techniques to find out the relationships with the independent and dependent variables. The partial least squares multivariate technique will be used to analyze the data. The empirical results will be then analyzed to develop the implications for Sri Lankan business managers.
Feasibility Assessment Model for Successful Adoption of Information Systems in Small and Medium Enterprises
(University of Kelaniya, 2013) Jayasinghe, J.M.S.S.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) have been recognized as an important strategic sector for promoting growth and social development in Sri Lanka. In the meantime IT has enabled the development of powerful and efficient Computer Based Information Systems (CBIS) which play a major role in business performance improvement. However, it can be seen that majority of SMEs have not adopted CBIS and also not all who have adopted have been successful. Therefore, this research is undertaken to develop a feasibility assessment model by which an SME that is considering adopting CBIS will be able to assess whether the adoption is feasible. Firstly, the influential factors at the phases of Pre-implementation, Implementation & Post-implementation and their level of significance were identified. The factors were evaluated and their importance and the level of influence caused were identified through a survey of SMEs which have already been implemented CBIS. Based on the results of the analysis a CBIS Feasibility Assessment Framework has been developed that would assist an SME to know its level of feasibility before adopting CBIS. Top management support and System Complexity proved to have impact in all three phases of CBIS adoption and mainly it was the Pre-implementation and/or Implementation capabilities that showed significant correlation with the system adoption success.
Feelings of healthcare staff towards ICT in the western region of Sri Lanka
(Department of Zoology and Environmental Management, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2016) Dileep, A.H.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
Information and communication technology (ICT) has in general become a worldwide tool in various contexts, including healthcare sector. Healthcare staff are change agents in healthcare sector. They are key drivers who play a crucial role in ICT integration in healthcare. The aim of this study is to examine feelings of healthcare staff towards ICT in western region of Sri Lanka. A sample of 100 healthcare staff was assessed for their feelings towards ICT using a Likert type questionnaire (Strongly Disagree (SD), disagree (D), Neutral (N), Agree (A), Strongly Agree (SA)). There were 60 female (60%) and 40 were male (40%) participants. Their average number of years of computer use was 8.73 years (SD=5.722). There were large amount of negative responses (SD - 52%, D - 45%) for reverse scoring questions. The percentage of positive responses for positive scoring questions were SA – 27%, A – 34% and N – 6%. Therefore, healthcare staff in the western region of Sri Lanka have positive feelings towards ICT. They have good feeling to work with computerized environment. This study clearly depict that feelings of healthcare staff towards ICT are not reverse strengthening for integration of ICT to the State hospitals in western region of Sri Lanka.
ICT Skill Proficiency of Healthcare Professionals in Western Region of Sri Lanka
(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Dileep, A.H.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
E-health facilitate availability of information online for patients and doctors and reduction of paperwork, such as records and files, which swallow a large space of medical centers. Further, this help to improve the country‘s healthcare services and make them better and affordable. Healthcare staffs are change agents in healthcare sector. They are key drivers who play crucial role in ICT integration in healthcare. The aim of this study is to examine the ICT proficiency of healthcare staff in western region of Sri Lanka. A sample of 100 healthcare staff was assessed for their ICT Proficiency using a Likert type questionnaire (Strongly Disagree (SD), disagree (D), Neutral (N), Agree (A), Strongly Agree (SA)). There were 60 females (60%) participants and 40 were male (40%). The average number of years of computer use was 8.73 years (SD=5.722). A list of hardware (i.e., desktop Computer, laptops, multimedia, digital cameras, printers, scanners, and Barcode/RFID reader) was provided to the participants for them to assess their level of proficiency. Most respondents can use hardware related to ICT (SA – 2%, A - 55.6%, N - 29.7%) but they have low maintenance proficiency (SD – 21%, D - 53.5%, N – 16.5%). Staffs reach to moderate proficiency in using office packages (SA – 23.6%, A - 57%, N – 18%) and web-based functions (SA – 6%, A – 36%, N – 55%). They depict low proficiency (SD – 96%) for System Analyst and Design, Software development skills, Networking Skills. According to the result healthcare staff can work with ICT integrated systems. But they are not in position to maintain computerized system in networking environment. Most of staff do not have any idea about analysis / design/ development/configuration of computerized systems relevant to the healthcare. There is higher necessity of having either well train or well experience/qualified ICT staff for successfully integration of ICT in to the Healthcare sector.
Identification of Critical Success Factors for Large Scale Information Systems Implementation in Sri Lanka
(University of Kelaniya, 2006) Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.; Vithanage, D.K.A.
Information is so crucial for the today’s business organizations existence. Most of them are moving towards the concept of digital firm or information centric business. Information therefore has become an important asset thus managing them in a proper way is considered as a high priority. Information systems (IS) have emerged to fulfill the need of them. Large businesses have very complex information requirements thus require complex IS namely “large scale IS”. During the last few decades many companies acquire large scale IS to gain competitive advantage. But the failure rate of enterprise systems as studied by the researchers were almost 70% and most of this IS failures resulted from poor implementation mechanisms adopted by the implementers. However, there has been not much research done to identify the factors that affect the implementation failures of large scale information systems in Sri Lanka. Therefore, it is worth studying and identifying the factors that affect the successful implementation of large scale IS in Sri Lanka. This paper focuses on developing and testing a model for successful large scale IS implementation by identifying critical success factors. A pilot survey was conducted initially to identify the critical factors for implementation success. For this, well reputed local and multinational companies’ top IT executives were surveyed. The analysis of gathered data reveals that the factors affecting the implementation of large scale IS can be distinctly categories in to six perspectives namely Individual, Task, Technology, Structure, Process & Environmental factors. Further analysis on data shows that these factors can again be overlook in two dimensions, factors affecting the pre-implementation stage and implementation stage. These six distinct categories were put in to four phases according to there priority of consideration. This research is only a beginning of a research effort that ultimately aimed to derive a framework for implementing large scale IS in business organizations in Sri Lanka.
Impact of Attitude on Implementation of E-Healthcare in Western Region of Sri Lanka
(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dileep, A.H.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
Healthcare, either in paper-based or digital format, is an information-intensive industry as for the industry to operate; it depends on the existence of patient health information (PHI) that is collected whenever a patient visits a healthcare center. Contrary to paper-based healthcare setup where PHI is collected every time a patient visits a healthcare center, in e-healthcare physicians collect Personal Identifiable Information only once and frequently update its related medical records. In general term, e-healthcare is related to computerization of healthcare services. Major factors identified as significant in the introduction of information & communication technology (ICT) into health care practice are ICT literacy of staffs ,confidentiality, security of e-healthcare information systems and the attitude of staffs’ that will use the system. Healthcare staffs are change agents in healthcare sector. They are key drivers who play crucial role in ICT integration in healthcare. Objective of this study is to research the impact of Attitudes of healthcare staffs when implementation of e-healthcare in western region of Sri Lanka. The Computer Attitude Scale (CAS), developed by Selwyn (1997) was used to measure the health care professionals’ attitudes towards the computer. It consists of four components of computer attitudes (Affect, Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Control, Behavioural intentions). A sample of 100 healthcare staff representing doctors, paramedical staff, nurses, Development officers, clerks were assessed for their attitude with respect to ICT using a Likert type questionnaire. Samples were collected from state teaching hospitals in Colombo, Gampaha and Kaluthara districts.( Lady Ridgway Hospital for Children (LRH), Colombo North Teaching Hospital – Ragama, General Hospital Kalutara).There were 60 females (60%) participants and 40 were male (40%). The average number of years of computer use was 8.73 years (SD=5.722). According to the analyzed data, healthcare staff in western region of Sri Lanka have positive comfort level towards ICT. Behavioral intentions of healthcare staff with respect to ICT have positive responses. Further, healthcare staff have positive feelings towards ICT and have positive beliefs about the usefulness of ICT in their job. This study clearly depict that staff of healthcare in western region of Sri Lanka have positive attitude to work in computerized environment.
Impact of teamwork quality on software development project success: Sri Lankan context
(Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Kumari, P.D.R.S.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
Software has become a very crucial in all facets of modern world by the growth of technology. A software development project (SDP) can be viewed as a set of activities performed by a set of developers. Software development is a complex activity that requires teamwork effectively. Teamwork is a dynamic process of working collaboratively with a group of people in order to achieve a goal. According to the literature, Software project success can be measured using four indicators namely, cost, quality, time and scope and there is a significant relationship between teamwork quality (TWQ) and SDPs success. Most of researchers have done their research works on teamwork for German and Dutch SDPs. However we cannot apply these findings direct to Sri Lankan context. As found literature of social and cultural factors can be effect to performance of software development project. The main objective of this research is to come up with a framework to explain impact of TWQ for SDPs success. To achieve that objective, conceptual model was developed as mention in the figure. The model was derived from different models which are found in literature. Then the indicators which are used to measure TWQ factors and the SDPs success are identified. This study focuses on Qualitative Research approach and questionnaire is used as the technique of data collection. Participation selection is done through snowball sampling, making use of our network to make contact with organizations to ask for their willingness to participate. TWQ on SDP success is gaining an increasing interest within both academia and industry. The reasons for making this kind of research supporting strategic and operational management of SDPs to organize teams more efficiently and effectively. Our research work has ability to solve actual delay incurred by a software project due to lack of TWQ due to lower performance of team members. This is useful for Sri Lankan software industry to build and manage teams more constructively and adjust their management activities to improve team collaborations and team performance.
Information Technology Outsourcing in Mobile Telecommunication Industry in Sri Lanka
(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Perera, B.C.B.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
The decision of Information Technology Outsourcing is considered to be the survival or failure factor in modern hyper competition environment. This is closely related with mobile telecommunication companies as Information Technology (IT) is considered to be the part and parcel of its industry. However, lack of initiatives to tackle IT operational efficacy through Information Technology Outsourcing has been under attention of both researches and practitioners. Nevertheless, eagerness to identify which factors influence a successful Information Technology Outsourcing decision has been remained untouched in academic literature in relation to Sri Lankan mobile telecommunication industry. Hence, the objective of this study was to identify the factors that influence Information Technology Outsourcing in mobile telecommunication companies of Sri Lanka. With careful review literature, three main categories of influential factors were identified namely Strategic, Economical and Technological. A conceptual framework was developed using above three factors and three hypothesis were developed. Ninety seven professionals from three leading mobile telecommunication companies (Dialog Axiata, Mobitel Pvt Ltd, Etisalat) who represent top management, middle management and senior technical staff participated in this research. An online questionnaire was designed using Google Docs which was distributed among participants via email. Out of the responses 68% of effective responses were selected for data analysis using SPSS version 20. Spearman‘s correlation coefficient technique was used for hypothesis validation. With the results, it is evident that there is a strong positive correlation between Information Technology Outsourcing, and economical factors (such as cost reduction and company growth) and strategic factors. Moreover, there is moderate strong correlation between technological factors and Information Technology Outsourcing. As a conclusion economic influential factors were highlighted as most influencing factors towards Information Technology Outsourcing decision.
An online news crawling framework for an aggregated news site
(Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Wagawaththa, W.A.I.K.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
The internet has become one of the most widespread platforms for information exchange and retrieval as the number of news websites is increasing rapidly. During the last decade, most of the major newspapers have developed web sites providing news and other information. In addition, web-only newspapers have also appeared. News aggregator is a good substitute for news sites like BBC news. Because news aggregators can index not just the content of the BBC news but all other news sites, giving it a huge advantage in coverage. On the other hand, news aggregators may complement online news sites. Because news consumers incur costs (time and effort) in searching for news that are important to them and also they will compare the expected benefit from visiting a news site to the expected search cost, where that cost includes becoming aware of the existence of the site and finding how to navigate it. There are few news aggregators like Google News, News Look Up, Fark which provide news aggregation facilities, but they are proprietary and there are privacy concerns about the user along with the biasness of these aggregators. In order to benefit more from the available information, the objective of the research is to develop a technical framework, gathering online news and approach to recognize most important latest news and display the recognized news items that society is interested in without any bias. Presenting crawled news items in a way that it displays the trending topics in society will increase the awareness of the reader. In order to do that news classification and ranking is a needed. News items for the framework will be gathered through (RSS) feeds. Gathered news feeds will be stored and will be preprocessed. Keywords will be extracted from an algorithm that can be worked with any language that has basic Morphological tools for language processing. Category classification of the news items will be done using a method that is based on the keyword extraction algorithm. Topic detection and classification of the news items will be done to the category classified news items using an algorithm that requires no corpus for statistics or training data. The ranking of the news article, topic and source will be done using an approach which is based on the virtual graph model. In the ranking process, similarity between articles are calculated manually and it will be automated using the cosine similarity.
Perceived usefulness of ICT by Healthcare staffs’ in western region of Sri Lanka
(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dileep, A.H.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
Information and communication technology )ICT (has the potential for supporting patients ’prescription and staff information sharing, hospital resource management, and collaboration among pre-hospital services . Healthcare staff are changed agents in healthcare sector .They are key drivers who play crucial role in ICT integration in healthcare .The aim of this study is to examine healthcare staff level of perceived usefulness of ICT in western region of Sri Lanka . A sample of 100 healthcare staff was assessed for measure the individual’s beliefs about the usefulness of ICT in their job using a Likert type questionnaire )Strongly Disagree )SD(, Disagree )D(, Neutral )N(, Agree )A(, Strongly Agree )SA ((and Statistical Package for the Social Science )SPSS ( . There were 60 females )60 (%participants and 40 were male )40 .(%The average number of years of computer use was 8.73 years )SD=5.722 .(There were neutral responses) 11 (% for reverse scoring question .Further, there were high positive responses) 89(% for positive scoring questions . Therefore healthcare staff in western region of Sri Lanka have positive beliefs about the usefulness of ICT in their job .They have good beliefs to work with computerized environment as well as present environment . This study clearly depict that healthcare staff beliefs about the usefulness of ICT in their job are not reverse strengthening for integration of ICT to the State hospitals in western region of Sri Lanka
Predicting landslides in hill country of Sri Lanka using data mining techniques
(Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Karunanayake, K.B.A.A.M.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
A landslide is the movement of rock, debris or earth down a slope. They result from the failure of the materials which make up the hill slope and are driven by the force of gravity. When it refers to Sri Lankan context landslide is the major natural disaster in hill country of Sri Lanka, creating economical and ecological damage while endangering human lives. Therefore, the fast detection plays an important role in avoiding or minimizing the hazards. Currently in Sri Lanka National Building Research Organization (NBRO) under the Ministry of Disaster Management in Sri Lanka issue landslide early warning messages based on Landslide Hazard Zonation Map and readings of auto meter rain gauging. However, a map is only covering a specific point in time, and do not take current weather and geographical conditions into account. Though they collect current rainfall using auto meter rain gauging this facility is not established in everywhere. As the hill country is a rapidly developing area some causative factors can be changed time to time due to human intervention or natural incidents. Therefore, it is understood that there has a problem in predicting landslide depending on current situation. On the other hand, to deal with the current approach there must have an expert. The main objective of this study is to develop a model which can be embedded to develop an user friendly and efficient computer program which is usable by any ordinary person who is living in a landslide prone area to determine “am I safe in the current place with regards to current geological and weather condition?” by dealing with data of current situation rather than living blindly until NBRO issue warnings. Most of the time landslides often occur at specific location under certain topographic and geologic conditions within the country and it is important to utilize existing data to predict landsides. Data mining techniques can be used to develop prediction models using existing data. Plan-Do-Check-Act data mining methodology has been selected for this study. Initially, study is limited to homogeneous areas of Badulla and Nuwara-Eliya districts which are already identified as landslide prone areas. Based on the homogeneity of these areas models will be developed by incorporating only three causative factors, slope, surface overburden, land use which are varying due to human intervention and natural incidents and triggering factor, rain fall. The historical data are collected using the contours, map of land use, map of overburden and map of landslides. The decision tree algorithm and the neural network technique will be used to develop prediction models out of predictive analysis data mining techniques. The cross validation evaluation technique will be used to test the models and ultimately select the best model out of decision tree algorithm model and neural network model.
The Status of Business Continuity & Crisis Management (BCCM) in Large Scale Financial Information Systems in Sri Lanka
(University of Kelaniya, 2007) Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.; Herath, H.M.P.S.
The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is on the increase and encompasses nearly the entire business process of Financi~d Industry. In this industry the rising competition and customer expectations have compelled management to implement and continuously upgrade scalable ICT practice and solutions. The range of financial services combined with the complexity of integrated ICI enabled deli\ery mechanisms require comprehensive partnership to be forged between hnancial Organisations and ICT solution providers, especially with regards to Business Continuity & Crisis Management (BCCM). An effective BCCM model guarantees information mailability and plays a vital role in ensuring an organization's survivability to run their business on 24*7. Such a model is critical as it will also provide reliable assurance on ensuring continuity of critical business functions in the event of crisis or disasters. Despite its importance, there has been no much research done to identify the current status of BCCM in Financial Organizations in Sri Lanka. This paper focuses on evaluating current status of BCCM in large scale financial information systems in Sri Lanka. Disaster tolerance, Disaster recovery planning, Digital systems security and Application Availability have been identified as the main four factors in BCCM. A questionnaire was developed and administered among total number of 100 executive levels and above staff members from financial industry to gather information related to the above four factors. The survey results indicate that 36°·() of executive management aware or im olves in BCCM programs. But only 6% of them has valid BCCM programs and rest of the organizations do not have acceptable BCCM program in place. 48% of the respondents stated that their organizations have no BCCM leadership and they are unable to ans\ver the questions. Majority of managers (53
Study on knowledge management practices in software development industry in Sri Lanka
(Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Gunawardhana, A.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
In the information age with expanded global market, many organizations compete for higher profit margins. As a result, using previous knowledge for redesigning and integrating business processes to increase operational efficiencies has become a necessity. Furthermore, organizations can improve quality of products and services by collective body of knowledge offered by employees of these organizations. Software development process is a knowledge-intensive process. Therefore, with the increased complexity of Software Engineering (SE) project work, knowledge processes have led to a greater dependency upon solving problems. Software organizations gain local experience with the time by completing lots of SE project works, careful measurement of planned software activities, trial and error, feedback from customers and from the environment in general. However, for better implementation of Knowledge Management (KM) practices, organizations need to be supported by right kind of people, process and technology. Organization’s people, processes and technology will at all times are either enablers of, or barriers to, effective knowledge management. Therefore, it is very important to identify the barriers and remove them and build enablers which support the effective KM practice within the organization. This study is built around this people, process and technology model. Therefore, people, process, technology are independent variables and effectiveness of KM is the dependent variable. This study was undertaken to analyze key factors affecting to the effectiveness of KM, finding out the percentages of each people, process, and technology factors impact to the KM in software industry and as the main objective, study the current KM practices in Sri Lankan software development industry and find out the best KM practices. The study is descriptive in nature. Stratified sampling technique under probability sampling design will be used to select the samples. Primary data will be collected from the samples by administering a structured questionnaire. The data will be collected from small to large KM practicing companies. Correlation and coefficient analysis, multiple regression analysis and ANOVA will be carried out on the collected data to derive the findings. With the time by working on different projects, employees gather unique knowledge from their experience. The results of this study will help managers to facilitate adoption of KM and prioritizes its practices.
The Status of Business Continuity & Crisis Management (BCCM) in Large Scale Financial Information Systems in Sri Lanka
(2007) Herrath, H.M.P.S.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I.
The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is on the increase and encompasses nearly the entire business process of Financial Industry. In this industry the rising competition and customer expectations have compelled management to implement and continuously upgrade scalable ICT practice and solutions. The range of financial services combined with the complexity of integrated ICI enabled delivery mechanisms require comprehensive partnership to be forged between Financial Organisations and ICT solution providers, especially with regards to Business Continuity & Crisis Management (BCCM). An effective BCCM model guarantees information availability and plays a vital role in ensuring an organization's survivability to run their business on 24*7. Such a model is critical as it will also provide reliable assurance on ensuring continuity of critical business functions in the event of crisis or disasters. Despite its importance, there has been no much research done to identify the current status of BCCM in Financial Organizations in Sri Lanka. This paper focuses on evaluating current status of BCCM in large scale financial information systems in Sri Lanka. Disaster tolerance, Disaster recovery planning, Digital systems security and Application Availability have been identified as the main four factors in BCCM. A questionnaire was developed and administered among total number of 100 executive levels and above staff members from financial industry to gather information related to the above four factors. The survey results indicate that 36�% of executive management aware or involves in BCCM programs. But only 6% of them has valid BCCM programs and rest of the organizations do not have acceptable BCCM program in place. 48% of the respondents stated that their organizations have no BCCM leadership and they are unable to answer the questions. Majority of managers (53%) believe Backup/Restore policy is the BCCM. One (1) out of Four ( 4) organizations has a Business Continuity Management (BCM) or BCCM in place against crisis or any kind of business functions discontinuity events. 17% of survey participants only knows their organisation has a BCCM and only 29% of managers have BCCM education in their organisation. Research reveals that a lot of Sri Lankan businesses, especially financial industry, is yet to consider systematically about BCCM and uncertainties in their environments.