Cloud Adoption Readiness Assessment Framework for Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Economies - Evidential Reasoning Approach

Mesfin Workineh, Nuno M. Garcia, Dida Midekso

2018

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to develop Cloud computing (CC) adoption readiness assessment framework for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing economies. The benefits obtained from CC let the SMEs in developing economies to consider CC as an alternate technological solution. These SMEs require adoption readiness assessment framework in order to eliminate complexities during adoption. Most of the existing frameworks involve technological characteristics to assess adoption readiness and also do not handle uncertainties of decision makers. But, technological characteristics are not foremost indicates of adoption readiness. Therefore, this study proposes Cloud adoption readiness assessment framework based on organizational resources perspective using evidential reasoning (ER) approach. The finding of this study contributes to the existing CC literature and helps the practitioner to make an informed adoption decision. Lastly, the effectiveness of proposed framework is shown using case study.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Workineh M., Garcia N. and Midekso D. (2018). Cloud Adoption Readiness Assessment Framework for Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Economies - Evidential Reasoning Approach.In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-758-320-9, pages 747-754. DOI: 10.5220/0006883907470754

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft18,
author={Mesfin Workineh and Nuno M. Garcia and Dida Midekso},
title={Cloud Adoption Readiness Assessment Framework for Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Economies - Evidential Reasoning Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2018},
pages={747-754},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006883907470754},
isbn={978-989-758-320-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Cloud Adoption Readiness Assessment Framework for Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Economies - Evidential Reasoning Approach
SN - 978-989-758-320-9
AU - Workineh M.
AU - Garcia N.
AU - Midekso D.
PY - 2018
SP - 747
EP - 754
DO - 10.5220/0006883907470754