Digital business strategies and competitive superiority

Business transformation, information technology and competitive strategies: learning to fly

‘Business transformation’ is an overarching concept encompassing a range of competitive strategies which organisations adopt in order to bring about significant improvements in business performance. These strategies include business process re-engineering, organisational development/learning, Total Quality Management and use of information technology. In this article different models of busines...

Evaluating the Growth and Evolution of Facility Management in Innovating Integrating and Aligning Business Strategies to Achieve a Competitive Advantage

The South African Facilities Management (FM) industry has seen increased operational strategy complexity from single-site contractors providing basic janitorial services to highly integrated and bundled FM service providers.  Despite these major changes, very little research has been conducted on evaluating the effectiveness of FM in innovating, integrating and aligning business strategies to a...

Special Issue: Digital Business Strategy How a Firm’s Competitive Environment and Digital Strategic Posture Influence Digital Business Strategy

In this paper, we examine how the competitive industry environment shapes the way that digital strategic posture (defined as a focal firm’s degree of engagement in a particular class of digital business practices relative to the industry norm) influences firms’ realized digital business strategy. We focus on two forms of digital strategy: general IT investment and IT outsourcing investment. Dra...

Seven Open Source Business Strategies for Competitive Advantage

ware today have many options for satisfying their computing and networking needs. Open source software is one of them, and it is often selected because of the broader choices open source can deliver. For instance, open source offers enterprises the opportunity to be more self-reliant through source code modification. It allows incremental project and upgrade schedules, free reign in integration...

How a Firm's Competitive Environment and Digital Strategic Posture Influence Digital Business Strategy