The Cooperative Game-Theoretic Model of Stable Benefits Distribution from IT Solution Implementation

2018, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 150–156 150 Introduction Practical business shows that many IT initiatives that require significant changes in the existing Enterprise Architecture (EA) are not implemented. According to many experts, one of the obvious reason for this is the interaction between developers and stakeholders and the presence of a “human factor” [1–3]. In the theory of stakeholders it is noted [4] that managers of various departments (under the department is understood operationally independent functional units of the enterprise) are inclined to focus on achieving their own local goals, and only after them on the global goals of the whole enterprise. Mismatch for the purposes of different stakeholders is a source of conflict [5]. To prevent the conflict just an exchange of information between the stakeholders involved in the implementation of the project is not sufficient, stakeholders are jointly to choose and assess the proposed distribution of benefits from implementation. Thus, in this article, we hypothesize that before launching an IT project of implementing an economically reasonable IT solution, each coalition of stakeholders involved in project development should be acquainted with the benefits that they receive after implementing the solutions. This will contribute to avoiding the difficulties caused by the opportunistic behaviour of some stakeholders who are dissatisfied with the launch of EA development projects. The task of ensuring the alignment of interests within the stakeholder group in a new architectural solution (AS) selecting process and adopting it in implementation in the existing IT architecture is reduced to the tasks of an integrated assessment of the benefits from implementation and their subsequent distribution among the involved departments in the organization. This problem can be solved using the methods of game theory through modelling socioeconomic systems when making decisions or distributing costs / benefits as the game theory methods allow finding equilibrium states and effective distributions in situations of randomness, incompleteness of information and uncertainty, contradiction and conflict of interests. DOI: 10.14529/ctcr180316