• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.71-87
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• 2008

In order to survive in a competitive environment, many companies are taking much interest in building IT infrastructure and are investing in that area. But, despite of all the interest and investments, many companies are unsatisfied and confused because of the lack of guidance and understandings of IT infrastructure. Therefore the purpose of this study is to prove that the level of IT usage is different according to organizational characteristics and industrial categories, and to give a guideline to companies' planning on newly building IT infrastructure. In conclusion, companies newly planning on building IT infrastructure should consider the amount of information technology functional uses according to the organizational characteristics and industrial category and they follow the below guidelines. On building the IT infrastructure the organization having the characteristics of formalization should consider and provide the standardization function first. The companies having the characteristics of decentralization should consider and provider firstly the application and communication function. And the companies having the characteristics of specialization should consider and provider the security function.