Information Technology Strategy Development

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Jassey
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Technology Strategy

Business Technology Strategy for a

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Anne Wilms ◽  
Stephen J. Andriole
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Technology Strategy ◽  
Operational Strategy ◽  
Strategy Versus ◽  
Specialty Chemicals ◽  
Technology Strategies ◽  
Business Technology

This paper focuses on the development of a business technology strategy for a large global specialty chemicals company. The requirement was to develop a strategy that aligned with the company’s business strategy, which is not an uncommon requirement for business technology strategies in the 21st century. The expectation was that information technology (IT) would cross the operation-to-strategic chasm and start to generate some significant ROI. The paper explores the elements of the “strategic strategy” (versus an “operational strategy”) as well as ongoing challenges to make both operational and strategic technology work. The authors illustrate a number of strategy development principles that students should internalize as they assess other cases and develop their own business technology strategies.

Information Technology Strategy in Knowledge Diffusion Lifecycle

2011 ◽  
pp. 2036-2041
Author(s):  
Zhang Li ◽  
Jia Qiong ◽  
Yao Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Knowledge Diffusion ◽  
Solid Base ◽  
Technology Strategy ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge

A progressive liberalization and deregulation of international trade, and the rapid development and diffusion of information and communication technology (IT) have fundamentally changed the global competitive dynamic environment (Ernst & Kim, 2002). Growing around these is a new information age economy whose fundamental sources of wealth are knowledge and communication rather than natural resources and physical labor (Kanter, 1994). The simultaneous development of the knowledge economy (Dunning, 2000) and the information technology economy (Varian, Farrell, & Shapiro, 2004) provides both opportunity and challenge for the organizations, and also requires us to develop from a comprehensive perspective by combining knowledge management with the information technology strategy. In the knowledge economy, the importance of knowledge diffusion dynamics has been increasingly recognized in development economics over the last decade (World Bank, 1999). Knowledge diffusion can be defined as the adaptations and applications of knowledge documented in scientific publications and patents (Crane, 1972). Knowledge diffusion is part of the knowledge management process, realizing the proliferation of knowledge and information among different individuals across time and space (Chen & Hicks, 2004). According to the extent of knowledge diffusion, the knowledge diffusion lifecycle can be divided into four stages, including incubation, nurture, promotion, and popularization (Lang & Yuan, 2004). In this lifecycle, knowledge diffusion refers to promoting the innovation and core competence formation, so how to accelerate the knowledge diffusion has become an important issue for organizations. The development of information technology establishes a solid base to accelerate knowledge diffusion. IT and related organizational innovations provide effective mechanisms for constructing flexible infrastructures that can link together and coordinate economic transactions at distant locations (Broadbent, Weill, & St. Clair, 1999). In essence, IT fosters the development of leaner, meaner, and more agile production systems that cut across firm boundaries and national borders. The underlying vision is that accelerating knowledge diffusion can speed up the dissemination of information technology. Knowledge diffusion is an essential content of the business strategy (Borghoff & Pareschi, 2003). However, existing theories of both information technology and knowledge have not specified the information technology strategy in the knowledge diffusion. This article introduces the information technology strategy in knowledge diffusion based on the knowledge cycle theory. The article describes how to advance knowledge diffusion by using the matched information technology strategy in a different knowledge diffusion lifecycle. The article shows how firms innovate and research to imitate knowledge and improve the diffusion of knowledge.

scholarly journals Information Technology Outsourcing Chain: Literature Review and Implications for Development of Distributed Coordination

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malgorzata Pankowska
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Models ◽  
It Outsourcing ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Distributed Coordination ◽  
New Business

The paper aims to analyse how the management science literature explains sustainable coordination and management of Information Technology (IT) outsourcing chains. The IT outsourcing theories,—that is, transaction cost theory, theory of agency, resource based view, activity based theory, contractual theory, partnership and alliance theory and stakeholder theory—are applied as a background to the analysis. A systematic literature review reveals that IT outsourcing is developed in collaborative networks and chains. There are some mechanisms identified in the literature for outsourcing chains’ management, interchain sustainability, coordination and interchain activities’ cohesion. The complexity of outsourcing relationships presented among outsourcers and outsourcees stimulate looking for new business models. Furthermore, outsourcing chains research would benefit from considering strategy-based theoretical discussions, relationship modelling and project management. The literature survey aims to present outsourcing chains in different aspects, that is, dynamics and agility, communication in chains, compensation and compliance, contracting, stakeholders, decision making models, governance problems, integration, performance measurement, project management and strategy development. This paper intends to emphasize that interchain coordination can be improved by enterprise architecture modelling as well as by the application of blockchain economy.

scholarly journals The new NHS information technology strategy

BMJ ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 322 (7299) ◽  
pp. 1378-1379 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C Wyatt
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Technology Strategy
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