A study on the factors affecting the implementation process of information system development methodology

Our study focuses on the implementation of IS development methodology as the innovation of IS organization. We have two main research objectives. We intend to understand the critical factors affecting the implementation process of IS methodology. We also intend to deeply analyze the relationship among the implementation processes of methodology. The whole innovation process is divided into detailed four levels with dynamic and evolving point of view: a cognition level, an adoption level, an acceptance level and a usage level. The results of our study are as follows. The main factors affecting initiation level of the IS methodology are the innovativeness of IS members, the existence of champion manager, training, the existence of IS performance gap, executive supports for IS organization, and the relative advantage of IS development methodology. At the implementation level, it is understood that the existence of champion manager, executive supports, training and the relative advantage of innovation are the main factors. However, the complexity of innovation is a negative factor about the quality of accepting and using the methodology in innovation process. In performing the innovation process, the previous level has a very notable effect on the continuous next level. However it's also understood that positive attitude of adoption level does not directly affect the quality of using innovation. Therefore, IS managers must pay attention to manage each level of the innovation process to successfully accomplish the implementation of IS methodology.