Evaluating strategic alternatives: An analytical model

Evaluating strategic alternatives: An analytical model

-The amount of information involved in strategic decision making and the computational limitations of human decision makers makes strategy selection a difficult task. Various approaches from sheer intuition to computerized decision systems have been proposed for strategy selection. In this paper we present an analytical model which systematically evaluates a series of strategic alternatives by ...

Evaluating Strategic IT Investments: An Assessment of Investment Alternatives for a Web Content Management System

As widely recognized in the literature, information technology (IT) investments have several special characteristics that make assessing their costs and benefits complicated. Here, we address the problem of evaluating a web content management system for both internal and external use. The investment is presently undergoing an evaluation process in a multinational company. We aim at making expli...

Evaluating Company's Strategic Choices: Strategic Choices Set Model

The crux of strategic management is evidently about doing the right strategic choices. From a large set of different possible choices the top management team must select the one(s) that give competitive advantage for a company. However, many research results show that managers tend to select strategies they are familiar with, regardless of the strategic optimality. We construct and present a St...

An Analytical Approach to Strategic Technology Selection

Technology selection is a decision making area of major concern to today’s manager. Technologies can create or destroy profits and have the ability to create new industries and transform or destroy existing ones. The dynamics of global business have changed the shape of organisational strategies. Now the focus is on a network rather than a single unit. This change has also affected the technolo...

Evaluating the alternatives.