Adoption av en kommunikationslösning : En kvalitativ studie

Sammanfattning: The modern workplace is dependent on effective communication in order for the employees to be able to execute their tasks. Despite this over half of the new communications-solutions that are inserted to handle an organizations communication needs fail. Therefore this study focuses on the adoption of communication-solutions in the context of the modern workplace. This with the intent of identifying factors that are central to the individuals’ adoption of new communication-solutions. To this end a qualitative study was done through semi-structured interviews with ten respondents from four different organizations that recently inserted a new communication-solution. The findings of this study points to three factors as central for the adoption of a communication-solution. These are the existing information ecology, education and motivation. Organization should consider these three factors in order to contribute to the individual workers successful adoption of a new communication-solution. Although this study has a limited scope, tendencies the point towards the three factors that has been identified as central for the adoption of a communication-solution can be observed. More research within this field is needed to confirm the findings of this study.