Critical Success Factors in Mobile Application Development at Selected Companies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Girmaye, Ayda (2016) Critical Success Factors in Mobile Application Development at Selected Companies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

These days, Mobile application development is one of the most critical business sectors in the world. Mostly the development companies are applying this business sector widely. Not only this, but in some developing countries like in Ethiopia can also be observed. Mobile application plays a very big advantage for individuals, groups, organizations and also for country. We can say that Mobile Application Development is a problem solver, entertaining and also a way of revenue generation for the country. But in our case, since we are developing country, Governments‟ didn‟t give that much attention for this business sector and the governments‟ rule and regulation is somehow restricted and also it assumed as a cause for security problems. For this reason companies are discouraged to develop new MAD company. So it needs more attention in order to gain high revenue and to make life easier. Beside, for whom that participated in this sector, it is very important to consider the critical success factors that allows developing better Mobile Application. The aim of this study is to identify the critical success factors of Mobile Application Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Specifically in three selected companies. These are Approbatics IT PLC, Techno Mobiles and Apposite LLC. This thesis is a descriptive research which is concerning on describing about Mobile application development success factors and it gives introduction since it is a new research done in Ethiopia. It allows organization to gain knowledge of critical success factors of Mobile Application Development for appropriate management and to use mobile application in their domain. In other case, for Application developers, it shows the important factors during the development process and allows them to complete their duty timely. In general, this thesis answers the research question by identifying the critical success factors of MAD in order to use and for appropriate management, which is helpful to have good understanding about Mobile Application Development success factors also. The necessary data is collected using questionnaire and interview from three Mobile Application Development companies to get an overall picture of the area and analyze using statistical techniques and from the result the researcher categorize the critical success factors in to three. Namely: Organizational Factors, Technological Factors and Employee Factors then additionally failure factors were directed.

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources
Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources > ZA4050 Electronic information resources
Divisions: Africana
Depositing User: Selom Ghislain
Date Deposited: 10 Sep 2018 08:59
Last Modified: 10 Sep 2018 08:59
URI: http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/5054

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