Success factors of mobile application development at selected innovation hub & co-working spaces in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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2017-06
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A.A.U
Abstract
Mobile application development attracts developers because of constant demand for mobile applications and comparatively easy access of the market.
This thesis entitled success factors of mobile application development at selected innovation hub and co-working spaces focuses on identifying the success factors that have direct impact on mobile application development, from the perspective of innovation hub and co-working space centers found in Ethiopia, namely iceaddis, xHub and BlueMoon. Even though there are good descriptions of the mobile application development, a structured description of success factors and potential problems is still missing, to identify success factors and issues of current mobile technology implementations a multiple case study in the area of mobile technologies is needed. Subsequently, this thesis work is one of the solution for this problem.
The necessary data is collected using questionnaires that is distributed for the members at the centers, interviews that are held on between the researchers and the executives, observation and literature reviews. The responses obtained through questionnaires are supplemented with interview. The analysis is done using SPSS statistics version 20. Frequencies, percentage, mean and standard deviation value is used for discussion for the questionnaire collected from those companies.
From the result, the success factors were then ranked according to importance. In each discussion the result is also supplemented by analysis and views of professionals and executive once.
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A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies of Addis Ababa University in Partial Fulfillment of
The Requirements for the Degree of Master
Of Science in Information Science
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Mobile, Mobile application, Innovation hub