Table 2. Interview quotes supporting candidate CSFs
Critical success factors Supporting quotes
Senior management support “They (senior management) have persisted with the investment because they have real belief that
at the end of the day it affects patients.” [1]
“There obviously was strong senior management support and even to the level of all the process
owners are members of the executive team as well, who are people who report directly to our
CIO.” [1]
Project champion “We’ve got two particular people on the executive team that have been in organisations where
ITIL has been implemented well and they’ve seen the benefits. So, they have been strong advocates
along the way.” [1]
“We’ve been fortunate to have very strong process ownership, so the people in those roles have
championed it down through the organisation.” [1]
“I believe you actually need more than one (champions) in an organisation this size. You need
pockets of people all over the organisation that are champions who can see the value and sing the
benefits to others.” [2]
Relationship with vendors “We’ve been very open, very honest (with Fujitsu and HP). We haven’t tried to hide our cards so
that we can squeeze them for every dollar.” [1]
“We partnered a Fujitsu resource with a QH resource. And two people worked on one process
and in doing that the skills transferred to the QH person.” [1]
Change in corporate culture “We did a fairly ambitious restructure of the whole information division because the previous
structure didn’t really lend itself to an end-to-end service provision.” [1]
“Change resistance, negativity . . . we’ve really just managed through. You know, keeping them
informed, constant communication, giving them training, that sort of thing which is really all you
can do.” [1]
“Essentially a far greater number of people need to be given some ownership of the processes and
their role within those processes. They then have some ownership and they feel they are part of it
instead of it being forced upon them.” [2]
Project governance and execution “We failed in the past . . . we had to consult every man and his dog 100 times, get everyone to
sign off and, of course we just never got anywhere.” [1]
“What we do is we meet with them (ID Operations Board) on a bi-monthly basis and we provide
them performance reporting on how ID is going — so it’s very transparent.” [1]
“If you don’t have a strong business case, not from only within the IT organisation but from
across the entire Queensland Health organisation, it won’t us get there.” [2]
Realisation of benefits (Not in “If we couldn’t clearly quantify where the benefits were, we’d then start getting lots of
original list of candidate CSFs) questions: why are you doing it because we could be spending the money elsewhere?” [1]
“We had to show clear and quantifiable savings across the organisation and benefits across the
whole organisation that tied into the objectives of the organisation.” [2]