Today, in knowledge and information technology era, the world’s businesses, both large and small, are increasingly seeking to use information technologies – especially information systems. There are implemented and maintained several of information systems: resource view based, customer orientated, document exchange information systems and universal ones, as opposed to specialized, and contains a lot more functionality offer. Information systems are implemented to ensure the core business functionality by automating certain processes, providing benefits such as business process transparency, arrangement and actualization. By the use of information systems certain services became popular, which are related with the established information system maintenance – the ongoing process of auditing, risk identification and management, and compliance regulations, laws, standards and guidelines. Such compliance is essential for the better functioning of information systems and aligns its activities. This article explores a theory of IT outsourcing and IT Compliance definition to give an idea of the need for it, and point to the benefits organizations can in carrying out these processes – system dynamics modeling research method was used in following research.
Although idea management (IM) and idea management systems (IMS) and related topics have been researched since 1982 and IM itself is as old as the first ideas, authors in previous research specified 18 research gaps in literature about IM and one of the most important that there is no united view on the terms IM and IMS and there are no specialized researches about these terms, as well, in the literature of IM they are not board discussed. Purpose of the research is to discuss and create definitions of terms IM and IMS using the reviewed literature. Research object: literature on IM and IMS. Research subject: terms of IM and IMS. Main research method – literature review. Data collected from 70 sources, including scientific publications, conference proceedings, books, white papers etc. published over the last 33 years, i.e., from January 1982 to February 2015, in all research fields. The research highlights that in the literature there are wide variety of the definitions of terms IM and IMS. The results of the research revealed that definitions of IM have not fundamentally changed over the time, but the definitions of IMS have transformed from “passive” to “active” IMS in millennium. The object of these definitions more often are described as systematic and manageable. Results probe that IM could be defined as – systematic, manageable process of idea generation, evaluation and development, but the IMS as a tool, tool kit or complex system which provides systematic, manageable process of idea generation, evaluation and development. The intensity of IM and IMS researches varies by region, but there are no major regional differences in defying the terms.