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5 Conclusions
The research is ongoing, and hopefully more patterns of how IT is creating business
value will be discovered. The Namibian economy like for many other developing
countries is going through a lot of transformations and it is the aspirations of
government and the people that they realise maximum economic growth potential on
a sustainable. Therefore the trend of considerable growth in adoption and usage of IT
is expected to continue. Therefore the besides just establishing how IT is creating
value studies are expected to extended to how best to harness the potential of IT to
improve the performance of organisations in Namibia and other developing countries
with similar conditions. This research is limited to how IT creates value in one
developing country, future research could consider more developing countries from
various geographical locations to provide an all-embracing picture of the nature of
benefits of IT investments and also consider how to harness the potential of IT.
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