Free and open-source hardware (FOSH) development has been shown to increase innovation reduce economic costs. This article reviews the opportunity use FOSH as a sanction undercut imports exports from target criminal country. A formal methodology is presented for selecting strategic national investments in improve both security global safety. In this methodology, first country that threatening o...

This paper provides a methodological framework in which the problem of IT project portfolio selection is solved by balancing between operational and strategic IT investments. From interviews with CIOs, we found that the interest in IT projects in many firms tends to center on operational benefits, rather than strategic benefits. We examined the impact of strategic IT investments from an IT port...

Substantial changes are needed to achieve a more targeted and strategic approach to investment in the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic that will yield long-term dividends. Until now, advocacy for resources has been done on the basis of a commodity approach that encouraged scaling up of numerous strategies in parallel, irrespective of their relative effects. We propose a strategic investment fr...

The brief history of application frameworks has been focused primarily on technical issues. That is changing today, as more and more organizations are recognizing the potential of application framework investments to improve their strategic position in the markets they serve. But to realize this potential, an approach firmly grounded in the disciplines of business strategy is needed. Value Base...

What drives firms, particularly those from emerging economies, to engage in competitive catch-up with world leaders? We study the first step leading to catch-up, namely the managerial intent to acquire strategic assets that help closing the gap. Theoretically grounded in the awareness–motivation– capability (AMC) framework of competitive dynamics, we identify key factors contributing to firms’ ...

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...

Investments in technology create a large amount of capital investments by major companies. Assessing such investment projects is identified as critical to the efficient assignment of resources. Viewing investment projects as real options, this paper expands a method for assessing technology investment decisions in the linkage existence of uncertainty and competition. It combines the game-theore...

This paper reviews some of the recent advances in our understanding of the determinants of firms’ choices between trade and foreign direct investment (fdi) as means by which to serve their overseas markets. Over the past two decades, fdi has grown much more rapidly than trade flows. The great majority of these investment flows have been between developed countries with similar factor endowments...

This essay argues that when the distinction between IT governance and IT management becomes too ambiguous, enterprise executives may conflate the two terms, deeming their participation in IT governance activities unnecessary. This essay posits a core set of executive-level IT governance activities in which business executives should participate. These core activities include: establishment of t...

In today’s rapidly changing healthcare industry, U.S. hospitals and health systems are contending with tightening margins that conflict with an ever-expanding list of capital needs. Given competing demands on scarce capital resources, an organization’s long-term success and sustainability hinges on its ability to make smart strategic investment decisions today. The alignment of capital decision...