Strategic Information Systems for Competitive Advantage

2003 ◽  
pp. 217-252
Author(s):  
Louis Ma ◽  
Efraim Turban
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Strategic Information ◽  
Strategic Information Systems

Strategic Information Systems for Competitive Advantage

2001 ◽  
pp. 185-199
Author(s):  
Gareth Griffiths ◽  
Ray Hackney
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Strategic Information ◽  
Strategic Information Systems ◽  
Sustained Competitive Advantage ◽  
Isolating Mechanisms

This chapter describes three critically important features for the planning, sustainability and implementation of strategic information systems (SIS). The literature identifies a consistent lack of success by organisations in achieving business benefits from their SIS investments and in particular the difficulties of obtaining a sustained competitive advantage over rivals. There appears to be little evidence that this record has improved as organisations increasingly rely on SIS to support their business strategy. The chapter focuses upon the need for appropriate SIS planning, the role of unique, causally ambiguous ‘isolating mechanisms’ in order to sustain SIS-derived competitive advantages and concludes by summarising the implementation factors deemed to be of real practical importance for the success of large-scale SIS projects based upon recent empirical research. The high failure rate of SIS applications in business is deemed to be largely of a managerial rather than a technical causation (Earl, 1989;Burn, 1993; Galliers et al., 1994;Barnett and Burgelman, 1996; Powell and Dent-Micallef 1997; Willcocks and Lester 1999; Watson et al., 2000). This chapter identifies and considers three components which are critical in this respect to enable an IT strategy fusion with the rest of the business (Papp, 1998).

scholarly journals Sustainability of Strategic Information Systems in Emergent vs. Prescriptive Strategic Management

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Hosseinian-Far ◽  
Victor Chang
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Strategic Information ◽  
Strategic Information Systems ◽  
Management Approaches

Since the introduction of the ‘Strategic Information Systems' (SIS) concept by Wiseman in 1985, there have been numerous efforts in incorporation of such systems by businesses for the very main reason of gaining competitive advantage. Considering the broad categorization of Strategic Management into emergent and prescriptive types, integration of SIS into business processes seems to be dissimilar in these two categories. This paper initially outlines the phases in the two types of strategic management approaches. It then intends to produce a framework for integration of SIS in each of the two methods. Lastly, the sustainability of SIS in emergent and prescriptive strategic management is compared. Our points of views on the Modern SIS have been presented.

Effects of strategic information systems on competitive strategy and performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (9) ◽  
pp. 2018-2045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adilson Carlos Yoshikuni ◽  
Alberto Luiz Albertin
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Competitive Strategy ◽  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Strategic Information ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Strategic Information Systems ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Strategic Orientations ◽  
And Performance

Purpose This study argues that strategic information systems (SISs) are necessary for organizations’ survival and corporate performance in turbulent economic environments. Applying Miles and Snow’s strategy typology, the purpose of this paper is to explore how SIS supports business strategy and corporate performance. Design/methodology/approach This study uses quantitative survey data from 389 Brazilian companies during economic crises and analyzes them using structural equation modeling. Findings There is strong evidence that SIS promotes capacity and flexibility to create competitive strategies in response to environmental changes. SIS significantly and positively predicts firms’ use of prospector strategies, reducing the need to sacrifice efficiency for innovation. SIS can predict corporate performance more strongly than firms’ strategic orientations can. Practical implications The results provide organizations insights on how SIS enables strategic planning processes to create competitive strategy and improve performance during economic turbulence. Originality/value This research demonstrates SIS’s positive effects during economic turbulence on competitive strategy and performance, revealing that corporate performance is influenced more by SIS (strategic process) than strategic orientation (content). Hence, this study fills a research gap in the information systems strategy literature by contributing new insights about SIS.

Effect of Information Service Competence and Contextual Factors on the Effectiveness of Strategic Information Systems Planning in Hospitals

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin-Yuan Hung ◽  
Wei-Min Huang ◽  
David C. Yen ◽  
She-I Chang ◽  
Chien-Cheng Lu
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Strategic Information ◽  
Strategic Information Systems ◽  
Strategic Information Systems Planning ◽  
Systems Planning ◽  
Information Intensity ◽  
Information Systems Planning

Many hospitals in Taiwan have started to encounter new and fierce competition as a result of the enactment of the National Health Insurance Policy in 1995. Hospitals should strive to use information technology (IT) strategically to improve their competitive advantage and meet the dynamic challenges in this competitive environment. This study adopts the Technology-Organization-Environment framework to understand the effects of contextual factors (e.g., environmental uncertainty and information intensity) and information service competence on the effectiveness of strategic information systems planning (SISP) to improve hospital management efficiency. A field survey was conducted using questionnaires distributed to accredited hospitals that serve patients from different regions/districts and with academic teaching qualifications/capabilities. These hospitals represent approximately a quarter of all hospitals in Taiwan. The findings show that the environmental unpredictability and business competence of IS executives are negatively related to the two SISP constructs: IT participation in the hospital planning and alignment of the IT plan with the comprehensive hospital plan. In addition, the findings demonstrate that information intensity has a significantly positive relation to both aforementioned SISP constructs. Finally, both constructs justify the significant positive correlations with the use of IT in increasing competitive advantages and improving the satisfaction of customers and end users. This research intends to guide the healthcare industry in raising competitive advantages to improve the operational efficiency of hospital management in today's highly digitalized environment.

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