The Effect of intellectual capital development on Strategic Information Systems Effectiveness in Food manufacturing Companies in Jeddah

Abstract

This study aimed at examining the effect of Strategic Information Systems Effectiveness in Food manufacturing Companies in Jeddah. To achieve the objective of this study, a self administrated questionnaire was conducted to collect the data. It was developed and distributed to the society of the study which was composed of 401 respondents from the (8) Food manufacturing Companies. 328 answers valid for analyses were retrieved .To analyze the collected data, we used The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), and the most important findings were as follows:1.The perceptions of employees in Food manufacturing Companies towards the level of intellectual capital development were at low level, whereas their perceptions towards the level of Strategic Information Systems Effectiveness were high.2.There is an impact of the intellectual capital development (manufacturing, activating, preserve and interested in customers) on Strategic Information Systems Effectiveness in Food manufacturing Companies in Jeddah.The study recommended to guide the managers of the companies on which the research was conducted, the necessity of linking the policies of attracting human resources to the standards of efficiency, through these companies' own systems. Besides, more attention should be paid to maintaining the intellectual capital by clarifying the service system in which the rights and duties and development opportunities are guaranteed, moreover, this study drew the attention to the necessity to urge researchers to hold a similar study in other industrial sectors, and studies on the development of intellectual capital, as well as the institutional performance and competitiveness.