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On 5th March, Dialogic's Marijn Plomp successfully defended his dissertation 'Maturing Interorganizational Information Systems' at Utrecht University.Today, more and more information exchange takes place through ICT and across organizational boundaries. The adoption, implementation, and usage of these interorganizational information systems (IOIS) are inherently complex, involving multiple parties, applications, and data sources that need to be coordinated and connected. Currently, there is an interesting variation in IOIS adoption levels, both between and within sectors. Many managers, advisors, policymakers, and researchers are challenged by the central question of why some value chains of organizations succeed in achieving full maturity in their collaboration and implementing extensive IOIS, while others still struggle and lag behind in this area. This leads to the central research question of Marijn's dissertation:
How can the development of theoretical models, empirical measurements, and practical policies promote the maturation of interorganizational information systems?
The research starts from the premise that one should first be able to measure the maturity level of interorganizational information systems. We address this by developing a model and typology for chain digitization maturity. This model and its associated concepts are then applied in the retail and healthcare practical contexts. "Policy" (both formulating an information strategy and evaluating innovation policy) is also examined from an interorganizational perspective.
Marijn Plomp conducted this doctoral research part-time over four years at the Department of Informatics at Utrecht University. In the Organization & Information group, he conducted research and taught on interorganizational information systems and related topics. Additionally, he is affiliated with Dialogic as a researcher/advisor. The dissertation includes empirical data from Dialogic projects.
For more information on the doctoral research or to request a copy of the dissertation, please contact Marijn (plomp@dialogic.nl).