Abstract: Link Company (GLC) is company that is own by government by at least 20% of the issued and paid-up capital. The usage of Information Technology in GLC is vital in bringing it as one of potential competitive advantage. Information Technology projects can be a long term or a short term based on the requirement and the scale of the project itself. Project obstacles that lead to failure were caused by different factors and one of the obstacles is the change management. The purpose of this paper is to address the practices of project change management in the context og Government-Linked Company (GLCs) in Malaysia focusing on the Project Management Factors, Change Management Factors, Top Management Factors, Organizational Factors and Process Factors. Furthermore, this paper will evaluate the validity of number of critical failure factors introduced by Walid Al Ahmad. A questionnaire will be distributed to staff in GLCs that is or has involved in IT project management.
Keywords: IT Project, Change Management, Project Failure, Government-linked Company, Malaysia.
Title: Projects Implementation Failure and the Role of Change Management Practices in Malaysian Government-Linked Companies (GLCs)
Author: Yusree Abubaka, Nur Izzati Ahmad Nasir, Abdul Rahman Ahmad Dahlan
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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