CLOUD COMPUTING PRACTICES AND PERFORMANCE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AUTHORITY PROJECTS, KENYA

Anthony Muraguri Mwangi, Dr. Yusuf Muchelule

Abstract


The study sought to examine effect of cloud computing practices on performance of projects in the Information and Communication Technology Authority in Kenya. The study targeted 7 ICT projects in Kenya focused on infrastructure as the unit of analysis. The unit of observation was the 200 respondents including ICT staff, Project managers, and Project supervisors. A Census was adopted. The study was underpinned by the Technology-Organization-Environment Theory. Both descriptive and inferential analysis were conducted using SPSS. The study also found that cloud adoption strategy and cloud infrastructure monitoring had positive significant correlation with ICT projects performance in Kenya.  The study also found that cloud adoption strategy (β = .180, sig = .002) and cloud infrastructure monitoring (β = .173, sig = .000) had positive significant influence on ICT projects performance in Kenya. The study recommended the leadership in ICT authority acknowledge cloud computing capabilities and embrace all the strategic opportunities in its projects. Cloud computing is known to be versatile as well as diverse technological innovation that cuts across all sectors and activities, and processes.

Keywords: Cloud computing practices, cloud adoption strategy, cloud infrastructure monitoring, performance of ICT projects 


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