Enabling domestic digital transformation:|A methodology for determining the country of origin of IT products

Abstract

Digital transformation enhancement in IT sector is getting crucial for efficient solutions in organizations. Institutions in public sector try to enrich its process solutions with additional products and services. On the other hand, in order to reduce financial expenses, especially developing countries give high emphasis on obtaining products with domestic resources. In addition to that, it becomes crucial for public and military institutions to develop IT products and technology infrastructure with domestic resources in order to preserve data security and privacy. The recent actions from Google company to ban Android products for Huawei smartphone producer for security reasons and United States withdraw for F-35 fighter jets sales to Turkey for strategic data privacy reasons give clue about the importance of domestic production. Thus, there is a need to develop a reliable scale to measure domesticity of products. This study attempts to construct a methodology for determining country of origin of IT products. Suggested methodology was verified by interviews with experts in subject area.