Welcome to volume 35 of Information Systems Management! In this issue, I am happy to present five articles. The first, “Contribution and Consumption of Content in Enterprise Social Media,” by Tobias H. Engler and Paul Alpar, explores how employees use enterprise social enterprise media using the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology. Notably, the findings of this work show that although a pure content consumption is primarily driven by the wish for performance improvements, the social environment does not support this behavior. In the second article, “How Universal are IT Project Success and Failure Factors? Evidence from Hungary,” by Márta Aranyossy, Bálint Blaskovics, and Ákos Ardzsuna Horváth, the authors examine the universality of information technology factors and project manager characteristics for success by considering national cultural context, gender, experience, and time. The international comparison of Hungary and the United States concludes that stakeholder management, top management support, and planning are the most critical factors of failure in both countries. The third article, “A Conceptual Framework of Information Systems for Organizational Creativity Support: Lessons from Empirical Investigations,” by Celina M. Olszak and Jeszy Kisielnicki, proposes a conceptual framework of information systems for organizational creativity support which synthesizes various factors that can have an influence on the development of information systems. In the fourth article, “The Culture of Information Technology Infrastructure Library: Values and Implementation Challenges,” by Sune Dueholm Müller and Christian G. de Lichtenberg, the authors report on Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) implementation in Maersk Oil. Conclusions of the analysis are that managers focus first on communicating the vision and goals of process improvement, subsequently link and adapt implementation plans to the business strategy and cultural values of the company, and lastly consider the possibilities and risks of instilling market values through formalized business processes. In the final article, entitled “Business Analytics Maturity of Firms: An examination of the Relationships Between Managerial Perception of IT, Business Analytics Maturity and Success,” by Leida Chen and Ravi Nath, a measure for business analytics (BA) maturity is developed and the relationships between managerial perception of IT, BA maturity, and BA success are empirically examined. The findings reveal that BA maturity positively affects organizations’ overall BA success and managerial perception of information technology positively influences organizations’ achievement of BA maturity.
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