Analytical Study of Challenges and Barriers of Creation of Value through Information Systems in Management and Construction Processes of Projects by Contracting Firms in Tehran

Abstract

Now, information system of project management is an essential part of any project, which consists of tools and techniques that are used to collect, synthesize, integrate and distribute outputs of the project management process. Project management whether inside the country or across the world in dealing with the increasing volume of information, and following it, the complexity of the decision-making, has found that manual non-integrated systems, and even in some cases non-specialist, based on the importance of information and information systems are not capable to create value. In other words, these systems often cause that most of managers are drowned in an eddy of information in sensitive conditions and cannot take the appropriate decisions and cause the organization is driven toward the loss of opportunities to create new values. Study the problems related to the use of information systems, exploitation and the correct use in order to create value is important for the organization or firm; because in this way the creation of value will be easier for these firms and at the lower levels of projects. The present study investigates the analytical challenges and barriers of creation of value through information systems in management and construction processes of projects by contracting firms in Tehran based on a descriptive-survey method using questionnaire, one-sample test, chi-square and AHP model by SPSS software version 21. The results show the significance of tests, and the problems and constraints are classified based on their significance that the institutional, human and environmental factors are the most important barriers respectively.