Organizational Rhetoric: Situations and Strategies

Linking E-Commerce Strategies with Organizational and IS/IT Strategies

E-commerce strategies are not easy to create or deploy. The environmental uncertainties and the dynamics associated with the strategic context make it all the more important for organizations to carve out a clear e-commerce strategy. Such clarity is desirable to ensure that organizations not only not lose out on new opportunities, but also that they take the requisite steps that are necessary t...

Nursing under Inconsistent Organizational Conditions: Evidence of Double Bind Situations?

Aligning Strategies: Organizational, Project, Individual

Current IT literature emphasizes the importance of adopting a governance strategy based on an organization’s customer market, and inherent technology and personnel capabilities. However, practical experience has shown that many organizations with sound strategies fail, often because the strategies are not aligned with IT project tactics or individual priorities. This paper explores the idea of ...

Digital strategies for organizational change

Data from a survey on digital strategies in the Danish public sector reveals sparse IT-strategy diffusion and limited use of advanced first-mover technologies. The survey contrasts the picture of the public sector as a digital dynamo and challenges the rational views on IT-strategy formulation. Facing incrementally orchestrated strategies, the paper suggests that more attention is given to the ...

Strategies for Interweaving Groupware and Organizational Structure

Many authors contend that realizing benefits of new information technologies requires adjusting such technologies to fit with the organization’s context or, alternatively, they suggest adjusting organizational practices to accord with the new technologies (Rifkin, 1995). However, Orlikowski and Yates (2006) pointed out that the ways these prescriptions are applied in practice are yet ill define...