Organizations are making large investments in information communication technology (ICT). However, many are risky and are often considered runaway, because they do not meet original expectations of cost, time, or benefits. Effective management of risks in ICT projects is therefore extremely...

The information and communication technology (ICT) industry is one of the most capital intensive among the high-technology industries. ICT business analysis, especially after the industry deregulation, has become a difficult task. Traditional quantitative cost-benefit analysis concerning...

After the liberalization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) markets many potential providers have appeared. Thus, business complexity, for ICT decision makers, has increased. In this paper we focus on the problem of selecting the optimal business evolution path for ICT, focusing...

In this paper, we estimate the value of an Information Communication Technology (ICT) investment opportunity, modeled as a Real Option (RO), when there is competition threat that can influence negatively its value or even more eliminate it. So far in the ICT literature, competition modeling is...

Traditional investment appraisal approaches, such as discounted cash flow and net present value (NPV) do not capture the flexibility in the investment deployment strategy. In this paper, we use Real Options (ROs) to capture the value of flexibility in the evaluation of a real-life telemetry and...

Information-Communication Technology (ICT) investments analysis using Real Options (ROs) has been a subject of active research during the last decade. It is a flexible method to value investment opportunities and to derive optimal timing of investments deployment taking into account...

This paper provides a methodology for finding the optimum deployment strategy for ICT business activities in the context of initial infrastructure projects, which support a number of future investment opportunities. It treats these opportunities as real options (ROs) and assumes that there is a...