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Formulation of Strategy
Jason Chen, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant
TASKCO.COM.TW
JasonChen@taskco.com.tw
chen@gonzaga.edu
eBusiness Key Concepts
eBusiness
the strategy of how to automate old business models with
the aid of technology to maximize customer value
eCommerce
the process of buying and selling over digital media (e.g.,
Internet)
eCRM (eCustomer Relationship Management)
the process of building,sustaining, and improving
eBusiness relationships with existing and potential
customers through digital media
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eBusiness Processes
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Why e-Business?
The Information economy will make all
organizations reassess their positions with respect to
their customers-supplier relationship.
“e-Business is bound to come and unless we are able
to cope with the changes in this world, our
competitiveness will decline.”
this is a clear testament to the power of the new
Electronic Business
Which includes:
Electronic Commerce
Electronic advertising
Internet Commerce Electronic buying and selling
Electronic Electronic distribution
Web Data Direct client interaction for
Commerce Interchange Marketing and customer service
Groupware, e-mail,electronic
Electronic Funds Transfer collaboration
Workflow, automated
Forms distribution
Secure X.400(e-mail)
Business transactions
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Figure 1.1 Established, Online,and Consortium Organizations in
the Marketspace
Established
organizations
Total Market
Online
Organizations
E-commerce E-consortium
Marketspace
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The Key to successful business
on the Internet ...
The key to successful business on the
Internet is not the formulation of a
conceptual strategy but the execution of that
strategy -
the content owners must buy into the strategy and have
the confidence of senior executives,
often the decisions the content owners make may have
serious consequences to the organization and its
strategy
Buy-in and open discussions are keys to success
Robert Plant, eCommerce: Formulation of Strategy, pp.67, 1999, Prentice Hall 7
Two Major Elements determines
Organization’s Success
Core Competency
A Value-added
Business Model
Value, value, value…
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Core Competencies
Detailed Customer Knowledge and Focus
We will seek to understand, anticipate, and be responsive to our
customer’s needs.
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Why e-Commerce Model is
beneficial to your Business?
The e-Commerce model is a basic model of
competitive strategy, based on the
principles of low costs, high volumes, and
comprehensive service, combined with a
product range unapproachable through
traditional channels.
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Why New Models?
We need some new models
for how we go about exploring IT for
competitive advantage,
for IT infrastructure how we create it and
manage it
for how we acquire, manage and deploy the
skills that are needed to run that infrastructure
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The Seven Dimensions of an e-Commerce
Strategy (bonding and leadership factors)
Leadership
Bonding factors
Technology Service
Infrastructure
Brand Market
Organizational
Learning
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Table 1.1 Leadership Factors for New Internet-
Based Organizations
Leadership
Factor The pillars of Success for Organization Born on the Internet
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Technology
The technology goal must be understood for that organization within its
industry and market.
Leadership
Factor The pillars of Success for Organization Born on the Internet
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Market
Being born on the Net requires that the organization understand the
possible moves from majors established organizations and utilize its
own nimbleness to counter them.
Service
An organization must know its customers’ expectations regarding
service level
The organization must understand what its value proposition is and how
service facilities or augments it
Leadership
Factor The pillars of Success for Organizations born on the Internet
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Service
Understanding how an organization creates service value during a
transaction for a customer.
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Table 1.1 Leadership Factors for New Internet
-Based Organizations (continued)
Leadership
Factor The pillars of Success for Traditional Established Organizations
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Brand
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Table 1.2 Leadership Factors for Established
Organization
Leadership
Factor The pillars of Success for Traditional Established Organizations
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Technology
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Table 1.2 Leadership Factors for Established
Organization (continued)
Leadership
Factor The pillars of Success for Traditional Established Organizations
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Technology
Market
An organization must understand what the implications of e-commerce
and technology are for the marketspace in which the organization is to
compete in terms of:
--- Branding
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Table 1.2 Leadership Factors for Established
Organization (continued)
Leadership
Factor The pillars of Success for Traditional Established Organizations
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Market
An organization must determine whether its target market is the same
as its traditional bricks-mortar marketspace or if it has moved.
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Table 1.2 Leadership Factors for Established
Organization (continued)
Leadership
Factor The pillars of Success for Traditional Established Organizations
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Market
Organization must assess the impact of pure Internet-based
organizations and use their own traditional core strengths-market
knowledge and product knowledge to offset Internet-based companies’
nimibleness.
Service
An organization must determine the new service level expectations of
the customer.
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Table 1.2 Leadership Factors for established
Organization (continued)
Leadership
Factor The pillars of Success for Traditional Established Organizations
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Service
Organizations must reassess their service value chain.
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Table 1.2 Leadership Factors for established
Organization (continued)
Leadership
Factor The pillars of Success for Traditional Established Organizations
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Brand
• Organizations need to determine how to best leverage their existing brand.
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Table 1.3 Bonding Factors Toward the Development
of E-commerce Strategy
Bonding
Factors Issues
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Leadership
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Table 1.3 Bonding Factors Toward the Development
of E-commerce Strategy (continued)
Bonding
Factors Issues
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Infrastructure
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Table 1.3 Bonding Factors Toward the Development
of E-commerce Strategy (continued)
Bonding
Factors Issues
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Organizational
Learning
Does the organization support internal learning?
-- Scanning the technology horizon for change and then adopting that
change where appropriate
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Key Factors for an Organization’s
Success
Several key factors are key to determining
an organization’s potential for success:
Does the organization possess first-mover
advantage in the marketspace?
Does the organization differentitate itself in the
marketspace?
Does the organization posses the ability to be
flexible and agile in the e-marketspace?
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The Executive should ...
The development and execution of a
successful e-commerce strategy is a difficult
intellectual and creative task, one that every
executive will have to undertake.
Key Steps:
determine the core competencies of your organization
determine the limitation in the new markepspace
assess the mechanisms available to move forward.
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Types of marketspace
B2C
B2B
B2G
G2B
B2B2C
B2B2E
The e-consortium
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Creating an Integrated
e-Commerce Strategy
Four positional factors
Technology
Service
Market
Brand
Three bonding factors
Leadership
Infrastructure
Organizational Learning.
Ch.2
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Figure 2.1: The Seven Dimensions of an e-
Commerce Strategy (bonding and
leadership factors)
Leadership
Bonding factors
Technology Service
Infrastructure
Brand Market
Organizational
Learning
N
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Figure 2.1 The Seven Dimensions of an
e-Commerce Strategy
Leadership
Technology Service
Infrastructure
Brand Market
Organizational
Learning
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What is the Next ...
Based on the seven-dimension e-C strategy
model ...
If you want your company to succeed, the
solution is to move to an e-Commerce
model ASAP.
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Figure 2.1 The Seven Dimensions of an
e-Commerce Strategy (bonding and
leadership factors)
Bonding factors
Technology Service
Leadership
Organizational
Learning Infrastructure
Brand Market
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What is the Next ...
Based on the seven-dimension e-Commerce
strategy model ...
If you want your company to succeed, the
solution is to move to an e-Commerce
model ASAP.
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Creating an Integrated
e-Commerce Strategy (continued)
Organizations will always be adjusting
their strategies to meet the changing
environment in which they operate, and
the model aims at assisting executives
in understanding the importance and
weighting that need to be applied to
each factor.
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Figure 2.2 The Bonds of an e-Commerce
Strategy
Leadership
Leadership
Organizational Infrastructure
Learning
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Integration of the Four e-Commerce
Leadership Propositions
In creating an e-Commerce strategy, it is clearly to
align and integrate the four main areas of
positional strategic focus: technology, brand,
service, and market.
This is a challenging task that must be deeply
considered at the outset of strategy formulation
since both the dollar and opportunity costs of
dramatic strategic change after execution can be
high.
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Integration of the Four e-Commerce
Leadership Propositions (continued)
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Figure 2.3 Integration of the Four
e-Commerce Leadership Propositions
Technology
Leadership
Brand Service
Integrated e-commerce strategy Leadership
Leadership
Market
Leadership
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Technology Leadership
It involves the early adoption of an
emerging technology to achieve a
preemptive position.
e-Commerce strategies focused on
leadership through technology that are
found in all industry sectors.
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Brand Leadership
Louis Gerstner, Chairman & CEO: IBM
Branding - it is a very important issue and it will dominate
business thinking I suspect for a decade or more.
Source: IBM Executive Conference on Information Systems, Latin America,
Miami, FL, September 1, 1998
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Developing a Winning E-strategy
1. Ensure the project is backed by a senior
executive.
2. Develop a strategy before developing a
Web presence.
3. Develop a strategy by focusing on
technology, branding, marketing, and
service.
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Developing a Winning E-strategy
(continued)
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Porter’s Five Competitive Forces Model
NEW Threats SUBSTITUTE
MARKET PRODUCTS
ENTRANTS & SERVICES
TRADITIONAL
THE FIRM
COMPETITORS
SUPPLIERS CUSTOMERS
Bargaining power
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TM -
Elements of Industry Structure
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Dr. Chen, The Trends of the Information Systems Technology TM -46
Impact of Competitive Forces
Potential Uses of IT
Force Implication to Combat Force
Primary Activities
Finance Marketing
Production Outbound
Inbound and
and
and Service
Logistics Accounting Manufacturing Logistics
Sales
Support Activities
TM -48
Manufacturing Industry Value Chain
Product and Service Flow
Primary Activities
Support Activities
TM -49
Ownership Issues
E-centric Structure + Content = Success
Ch.3
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Problems and Issues that e-C
Strategists face ...
Problems and issues that e-C strategists
going forward may face are:
business models
transform from the old to the new, or
start from afresh
culture: change
time
time to market
sustainable competitive advantage and customer
value
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Figure 3.1 The E-centric Management
Structure
CEO
Sales &
Manufacturing Logistics Finance Personnel
Service
Manufacturing Finance
VP
E-commerce
Engineering Personnel
Purchasing
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Figure 3.2 The Relationships Structure of an
E-centric Organization
Senior
Management
Marketing VP Content
Automation E-commerce Owners
Peer-to-Peer
Planning
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Senior Strategic Management
Group
The overriding driver of a successful
Internet strategy is the leadership
demonstrated by senior levels of the
organization.
Content and services are based around the value
and investment criteria defined by the executive
steering group.
The criteria will be in the form of brand,
service, and market specifications, with a
directive on technological leadership issues.
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Marketing-Automation-Strategy
(MAS) Group
The MAS group develops a framework for
the operational e-commerce strategy, which
is then implemented at the level of the
content owners.
This is performed through the creation of
peer to peer planning groups.
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Planning Groups
The planning group security
provides the central content parameters
format issues
structure through
partner-relationship mgt.
which the core
request for comments,
operational issues of proposal standards
e-commerce strategy access parameters from
are derived, policies a technical perspective
such as: (speeds, bandwidth,
requirements, etc.)
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Content
Content may be king, but it is value chain
that is the power behind the throne.
what content is necessary for success,
what customers want in their content,
how the content adds value to customers.
Content is strong only when derived from a
strong and flexible business model such as that
of AOL Time Warner, which can service the
customer globally on the customer’s terms. 57
Conclusion
The key to successful business on the Internet
is not the formulation of a conceptual strategy
but the execution of that strategy.
To execute effectively, content ownership has
to be exploited.
The content owner must buy into the strategy
and have the confidence of senior executives.
Buy-in and open discussions are keys to success.
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E-Strategy Leadership through a
Technology Focus
The technology component has to be in
balance and harmony with the other
positional factors - brand, market
positioning, and service - to be truly
effective.
Strategy will be based on
technology strength,
technology leadership, or
Ch.4 enabling role. 59
E-Strategy Leadership through a
Technology Focus (continued)
The area of technology leadership involves
much more than purely the hardware and
software that compose an organization’s
physical infrastructure.
The 7S model can be employed in a new
way to provide a corporate framework
through which executives can formulate an
internal strategy for e-Commerce.
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Figure 4.1 The Mckinsey 7S Framework
Structure
Strategy Systems
Shared
Values
Skills Style
Staff
(Source: R.H.Waterman, T.J.Peters, and
J.R.Philips, “Structure Is Not Organization,”
The Mckinsey Quarterly, Summer 1980, p.7)
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Table 4.1 A Glossary of the 7Ss
Staff
Human recourses management
Style
Corporate style is a synthesis of the leadership philosophy of
executive management, the internal corporate culture generated, and
the orientation an organization adopts to its markets, customers, and
competitors.
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Table 4.1 A Glossary of the 7Ss (continued)
Skills
The unique or distinctive characteristics associated with an
organization’s human capital.
Shared Values
The concepts that an organization utilizes to drive toward a common
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Strategy: The Alignment of
Technology and Corporate Planning
The whole basis of technology strategy
formulation is the ability of the organization’s
executive to achieve alignment, that is
alignment between the technology strategy and
the strategy of the enterprise as a whole.
Figure 4.2: Strategy and Technology Horizons
Conceptual
CEO Strategic Horizon Emerging
Technology Horizon
CIO
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Strategy: The Alignment of Technology
and Corporate Planning (continued)
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Structure: Characteristics of a
Flexible Agile e-Organization
Figure 4.4 Technology Strengths (nature of the product and
the maturity of the organization)
Service
Market
Flexibility
Knowledge
Knowledge
Low Cost
management
Youthful Mature
Age of Organization
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Systems:
Figure 4.5 An Integrated E-commerce Systems
Architecture
Customer
Customer Customer
Management
ERP
Knowledge
Management Back Office
Transaction Processing
Data
Warehouse
Back Office -- Internet Portal
Executive Team
Information Systems 3Cs
3Cs
Organizational Structure
Application development
Technical Relationship
and implementation
Systems Management
3Cs: Capture, Cultivate, and Create employees and their skills -
are managed and coordinated through the executive teams 69
Six Vital Drivers for e-Commerce
1. The obsessive and continuous focus on the
business imperative,
2. Interpretation of external IT success stories,
3. Establishment and maintenance of IT
executive relationship,
4. Concentration of the IT development effort,
5. Achievement of a shared and challenging
vision of the role of IT
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Style and Shared Values -
Definitions
Style: “characterization of how key
managers behave in achieving the
organization’s goals; also the cultural style
of the organization,”
Shared values: “ the significant meanings or
concepts that an organization utilizes to
drive towards a common goal through
common objectives and a common value
set.”
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Style and Shared Values:
Figure 4.11 - The Dimensions of an Agile E-organization
Key characteristics to
Low Transaction achieving an agile e-
Costs organization are three
initiatives:
1. The drive for
Scale& Scale& flexibility in process.
Scope
E-org Scope 2. The drive to lower
transaction costs.
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1. Strategy
Issue: Focus upon alignment and planning
Action Items:
The CIO must have a clear vision of the technology
horizon and be able to communicate the implications of
these new technologies to the CEO and the business.
Build a lead-time buffer for organizational learning
between the technology horizon and the deployment of
that technology.
Create a roll-in, roll-out technology window; new
technology becomes an emerging core technology,
transitioning to core before finally declining and being
discarded.
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2. Structure
Issue: Focus upon becoming an e-organization
Action Items:
Strive to balance organizational and technical
strategies.
Youthful companies must exploit the flexibility and
low-cost structure to complete. Aiming to capture self-
knowledge and market knowledge to fend off existing
organizations.
Mature organizations must leverage their extensive
self-knowledge and market knowledge in order to
reduce their costs and recreate their processes in a more
flexible manner.
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3. Systems
Issue: Technology integration
Action Items:
ERP deployment: Automation without change is
detrimental; the EPR must be deployed with the aim of
generating greater organizational self-knowledge,
flexibility of process, and lowered operational costs.
Data warehouse: Focus upon the two dimensions of
data warehousing: cost efficiency, using the ERP data
through the data warehouse to reduce operational costs,
and information effectiveness to generate competitive
intelligence in the form of added-value information
services.
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3. Systems
Issue: Technology integration (Continued)
Action Items:
Knowledge management: The focus of the knowledge
management system is to inform and add value, not to
be a “look-up table”. The creation of a metrics-based
scored approach to the utility of the knowledge
management system is vital.
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4. Staffing
Issue: The role of the CIO
Action Items:
Create a strategy for retaining and maintaining a strong
pool of skills both at the executive level and at the
technical level.
Think outside the box for staffing solutions, and
identify partners and consultants that could assist the
process should internal skill sets be unavailable.
Many issues surrounding staff development have
traditional solutions that involve building trust,
communications, and growth opportunities for the
employee, as well as the organization understanding the
value of the employee and the employee adopting the
values of the corporation.
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5. Skills
Issue: The role of the CIO
Action Items:
The CIO must continue to add value through traditional
routes, but adding to this list the ability to Capture,
Cultivate, and Create an employee base with vision,
technical skill, and creativity.
Relationship management: This is a driver that requires
heightened attention and focus by the entire
organization’s early warning system of change in the
marketplace and in customer needs.
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5. Skills
Issue: The role of the CIO (continued)
Action Items:
The heightened necessity to nurture employees and
develop the organization’s internal flexibility, creating
a dot-com atmosphere of excitement , drive, openness,
and creativity within the corporation.
Technical skills: More than ever the CIO must develop
crossover skills and the entrepreneurial atmosphere of
the new dot-com organization to leverage an integrated
ERP, KM, and DW technology position.
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6&7 Style and shared values
Issue: Leadership
Action Items:
Leadership has to come from the very highest reaches
of the organization.
Technology allows organizations to add value to
customers through provision of information services.
A technology strategy does not come solely from
technology but is based upon leverage the technology
through marketing, service, and branding to deliver
added value to the customer in the form of information.
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6&7 Style and shared values
Issue: Leadership (continued)
Action Items:
A technology leadership strategy must build value to
the organization, delivering the information the
organization requires in order to get closer to the
customer and/or wider market coverage as determined
in the overall strategy plan of the organization.
The strategy technology plan must be aligned with the
overall plan of the organization.
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Developing a Market Focus:
Sector Strategies in Segmenting Markets
Service Production
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Figure 5.2 Internal and External Views of CA-
Chemical’s Internet Relationship
Functional Area External View
Internal View
Information
Community
Benefits Sites
Human Recruiting
Human Corporate Resources
Resources
Scientific Information
401K Greater Access
Community Banks
To information
And Data Access and
Research
Better Internal Network News
Database Access Partners Group
Partners
Cycle Time
Manufacturing
Reduction
Procurement
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Figure 5.3 Sony Market Leadership
Partnering
Create bonds and strong
relationships between
partners. Develop a
leading market,
technology leadership Create the
position ability of all
Create a Technology
Convergent unified technologies
Integration
Branding global Market leadership to connect
brand together
Internally drive the
organization to
accommodate change
through internet and digital
technologies. Create long-term
customer ”buy-in”as technology
Brand leadership creates loyalty
Flexibility,change,and
long-term desirability
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Figure 5.4 US Medical Systems Market Leadership
Service
Increased Facilitate
Customer Interuser Complement
Wider Relationship Communication
Quality The
Market
Organization’s
Coverage
products
Marketing Create a Technology
Focus upon
Unified Market Leadership
Global Key issues:
brand Responsiveness,
Delivery,etc.
Brand
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Rules of Internet Strategy:
Market Leadership
1. Determine the degree to which you will remove or offer
alternatives to the layers of intermediaries that exist
between the organization and the customer through the
internet channel.
2. Disintermediation is not always positive. Play to your
advantages – if you have a strong retail presence utilize it;
it is a strength online rivals don’t have immediate access to
on their own.
3. Regardless of product, you need a basic internet
presence and you need to offer value to the visitor. Even if
that is merely traditional contract information, present it in
such a way that the brand is reinforced.
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Rules of Internet Strategy:
Market Leadership (Continued)
4. Carefully align your internet strategy with your overall
business strategy.
5. Avoid frequent and abrupt changes of internet strategy
direction.
6. Develop a cohesive strategy across all brands.
7. Make your market leadership strategy consistent with
the branding strategy in the eyes of the customer, not just
in the eyes the executives of the advertising agency and
marketing groups.
8. Develop a strategy before developing a Web presence.
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Rules of Internet Strategy:
Market Leadership (continued)
9. Develop an IT infrastructure to cope with and integrate
the changes brought on by a Web presence before they
occur. This may be a viable partnering growth opportunity
with a technology vendor.
10. Don’t bring an e-commerce solution to the marketplace
before it is ready or before the marketplace is ready for it.
11. To get closer to the customer, you must add value for
that customer and continue to add value as the
requirements of that customer change over time.
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Rules of Internet Strategy:
Market Leadership (continued)
12. Derive flexibility and transaction capability from the
technology infrastructure upon which the Web presence is
based.
13. The Web allows product-based companies to offer new
information-based products through the low-cost,
omnipotent distribution mechanism of the Internet.
14. If the goal is mass customization, then incorporate the
ingredients of speed, innovation, agility, and technology
and leverage them through the internet relationship with
the customer.
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Rules of Internet Strategy :
Market Leadership (continued)
15. Low-cost commodity producers are not immune from
the threat of information-added-value competition from
within their industry as generated by large, traditional
market competitors through the internet.
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Service Leadership:
Adding Value to the Customer at Every
Point of Contact
For pure Internet-based service
organizations, it has come to mean fast,
reliable service that is efficient to use and
seamless in delivery.
Customers expect the low cost of
transactional services via the Internet to be
matched by easy-to-use, ergonomic
interfaces, backed up by an information-rich
Ch. 6
premium, global, 24x7 level of service.
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Figure 6.1 Internet Service Value Chain
(From Bricks-and-Mortar to Clicks-and-Mortar Transition)
The Brand
development Reinforcement
and execution
of a successful
strategy in
each of the Customer Customer Customer Customer
Internet service Acquisition Support Fulfillment Continuance
value chain Support
(Prepurchase (During (Purchase
segments is Support) Purchase) Dispatch) (Postpurchase)
vital for any
organization
wishing to
Customer Service Channel
operate all or
part of its
business online
The Value Chain is “Where the Rubber of e-Commerce Meets the Road”
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Rules of Internet Strategy:
Service Leadership
1. Established strategies of customer service still apply.
2. Internet service strength is derived from providing added
information to the customer on the customer’s terms.
3. Internet customer service aims to build an affinity
relationship.
4. The Internet provides a low-cost, high-quality service channel
opportunity with a global reach.
5. A call center strategy must be defined.
6. The e-mail interface channel must be defined and planned for.
7. A strategy for the virtual call center must be defined well in
advance of its potential implementation.
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E-branding: The Emergence of
New Global Brands
The development of an online branding strategy is a
complex operation and one that clearly needs to be
tied into the organization’s strategy as a whole,
based on the other three factors:
Technology. How are we attempting to leverage the
technology, with what consequence on our brand?
Market. What is our market segmentation strategy? How
can we define brands across these?
Service. What level of service will we deliver through
this channel - full service, low-cost service? How will
Ch. 7 this impact our brand?
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Figure 7.1 Internet Branding
Strategies
3. Brand
Reinforcement
4. Brand
Reposition
1. Brand
2. Brand
Creation
Follower
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Internet Branding Strategies
1. Brand Creation: First to Market Wins and
Wins Big
for new start-ups and for corporations moving to the
Internet as a business channel, the formulation of an
online brand is vital. Those companies (e.g., Amazon,
eBay) not only created a new brand, but successfully
executed their business model.
2. Brand Follower: A Last-Mover Disadvantage
or Recoverable Position?
This is evident in copycat sites that mimic the first,
second, or even third mover in an industry but have
little intrinsic value of their own. 97
Internet Branding Strategies (continued)
3. Brand Reinforcement - The Development of a
Continuous Brand Model across ALL channels,
media, and languages, including the Internet
A key to a successful business positioning is to achieve the
position of brand leader - universal recognition of name
and product. “Sales may not be the goal of every
organization, but ultimately every organization wants to
ensure that its brand is reinforced online.”
In order to achieve this, organizations have to provide their
customers or viewers with current, relevant information,
building the quality of their relationships with customers on
a continuing bases --- customers service value chain. 98
Internet Branding Strategies (continued)
4. Brand Repositions: Core Brand Values
Combined with a Modern Customer Experience
Organizations that move through brand repositioning to
create new channels to complement their existing ones,
attempting to add value to the customer through
reduced cost and convenience, but also offering a
source of information for the discerning consumer.
Repositioning may be radical or gradual, depending on
the organization and its branding needs.
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Rules of Internet Strategy:
Brand Leadership
1. In new organization, creation of a brand has to be a
primary strategic objective.
2. Branding strength comes from being first mover in
combination with high visibility and the added value
derived from the information surrounding the product.
3. Brand reinforcement is a continuous task. The aim is to
use the brand reinforcement process to maintain an
organization’s relationship with the customer. This is
achieved by continuously adding value to the customer
through the site.
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Rules of Internet Strategy:
Brand Leadership (Continued)
4. Brand reinforcement adds significant value to
organizations that can inform consumers, but not sell
directly, such as drug manufacturers.
5. Brand positioning can be considered using the internet
service value chain model, adding brand definition and
value at each point on that chain.
6. Added value for the customer comes from continuous
and innovative change of the information surrounding the
product and the organization.
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Rules of Internet Strategy:
Brand Leadership (Continued)
7. Utilize a mass customization approach in order to move
closer to the customer and add value to the customer but
not at the expense of the brand.
8. The Internet allows low-cost global branding to occur,
hence wider market coverage; however, the cultural
sensitivities of the global brand must not be lost through
the technology.9.
Brand followers need to reposition as quickly and
effectively as possible.
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Rules of Internet Strategy:
Brand Leadership (Continued)
10. Established organizations that have not established a
branding strategy based upon the Internet need to develop
one rapidly and align their overall strategy accordingly.
11. Brand repositioning can be an expensive and difficult
process. The establishment of strong and vibrant brand at
the commencement of online activity is vital.
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Formulating an Internet Rollout
Strategy
E-Commerce as in all aspects of IT and strategy,
strategic positioning meant little if it could not be
implemented.
The development and hosting of an organization’s
Internet presence forms a critical component in the
level of success experienced.
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Strategies for Developing an
Organization’s Website
The maturity of the organization
The access to skills among its internal technology
group
The necessity to create and develop proprietary
technologies
The flexibility of the content owners to drive,
control, and harness change
The time pressure to be online in the
organization’s virtual marketspace or to lead its
market in terms of service and brand
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The Rollout of an e-Commerce
Implementation
The rollout of an e-C implementation is
composed of two dimensions:
Site development
where strategic goals, ownership issues, and technology
all converge to produce a working system
Website hosting
selection of, and deployment to, a location or
organization where the system hardware and software
will be physically located, maintained, and managed.
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Information System Department
Internal
I R&D Team
(Skunks Internal
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T Works) E-C systems Customer
infrastructure Added
E
R Value
Partnering
N Mode
A Process
L Integration
Corporate
Ownership & External
Leadership Customer
Added
Value
E
X Internet
T Systems
E Development Internal development route
R Company External development route
N Partnering route
A Request for proposal
L System deployment
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Information System Department
Internal
I R&D Team
(Skunks Internal
N
T Works) E-C systems Customer
infrastructure Added
E
R Value
Partnering
N Mode
A Process
L Integration
Corporate
Ownership & External
Leadership Customer
Added
Value
E
X Internet
T Systems
E Development Internal development route
R Company External development route
N Partnering route
A Request for proposal
L System deployment
3. Internal hosting
a company stores, maintains, and monitors its
own systems at its own internal data center.
4. Colocation
a company stores, maintains, and monitors its
own information and systems, but utilizes the
services of a Web hosting company to store the
server.
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Factors for Making a Hosting
Decision
Metrics relating to site performance (from IBM):
Performance
Scalability
Availability
Reliability
Simplicity
Integration
Security
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Figure 8.3 Building an End-to-End Response Time
Application Design
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Internet Strategy Effectiveness –
A Scorecard Approach
The Internet and e-Commerce presents
executives with a new variant on an old
problem -
“What am I getting out of this technology
investment?”
Ch. 9
117
Internet Strategy Effectiveness –
A Scorecard Approach (continued)
Successful CEO-CIO teams should understand the
value of an activity-based approach to IT ROI
analysis
1. The creation of an ROI value criteria
2. Creation of a metrics program to monitor the ROI
value criteria
3. Data capture
4. Actual ROI analysis from the metrics data
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Approach of selling online or just
advertising the site to reinforce the brand
1. Determine forces of internal and external to the
organization that influence the organization’s e-
Commerce strategy formulation.
2.Create a metrics program based on the use of
value criteria in the form of an Internet
effectiveness scorecard (use of activity-based ROI
analysis).
3. Determine the effectiveness of the value criteria
at the ownership levels, the process levels, and the
transactional levels.
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Figure 9.1: Forces in Strategy Formulation
N
Start Point
Monitor Metrics
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2.Competitive Metric Forecast Actual Industry Effectiveness
Initial Goal Results Best Rating
Leadership Practice
Was the effectiveness of your
development increased by
the involvement and support
of the CEO, CIO, or other
senior executive from the
outset?
Did the technology
effectively add value to your
customers through provision
of information services?
Were the organizational and
technology strategy plans
effectively aligned?
Was our approach to the
sourcing of the development
effective in achieving the
goal of rapid system
deployment?
Did the Web technology
effectively reduce the costs
associated with updating our
customers’ information
requirements?
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Continued
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3.Brand Metric Forecast Actual Industry Effectiveness
Initial Goal Results Best Rating
Practice
Was being an early mover in
combination with high
presence visibility an
effective strategy?
By adding information the
product to the site, did we
effectively add value to the
branding strategy?
Has brand reinforcement
been an effective
intermediate strategy prior
to offering online sales and
services?
Is brand reinforcement an
effective strategy where we
are prevented from selling
online?
Is continuous and innovative
change of the information
surrounding the products
and the organization
effective in adding value to
the brand?
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Continued
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4. Service Metric Forecast Actual Industry Effectiveness
Initial Goal Results Best Rating
Practice
Are established strategies of
customer service still
applicable and in effect?
Is the effectiveness of
internet service strength
derived from the added
information provision to the
customer on the customer’s
terms?
Is the organization’s internet
customer service effective in
building a significant
affinity relationship?
Does the internet service
strategy provide an effective
low-cost quality service
channel opportunity with a
global reach?
Must an effective e-mail
channel strategy be defined
and planned for in advance,
and did we achieve this?
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Continued
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5.Market Metric Forecast Actual Industry Effectiveness
Initial Goal Results Best Rating
Practice
Did we develop an effective
internet strategy prior to
developing a web presence?
Did we develop an effective
IT architecture to cope with
and integrate the changes to
the organization caused by
the Web presence?
In order to compete in the
internet space effectively,
was it necessary to align the
internet strategy with the
overall business strategy,
and did we achieve this?
Did our organization
(regardless of product) need
an effective internet
presence that offered value
to the customer (visitor),
and did we achieve this?
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Continued
5.Market Metric Forecast Actual Industry Effectiveness
Initial Goal Results Best Rating
Practice
Do changes in internet
marketing strategy need to
be avoided to allow the
customer to have effective
and consistent vision of the
organization, and do we
achieve this?
Did we effectively achieve a
coherent internet marketing
strategy that is necessary
across all brands?
To be effective do the
product marketing and
branding strategies need
consistency in the eyes of
the customer, and so do we
achieve this?
To be effective in getting
closer to the customer, does
the internet strategy have to
change over time to meet
the changing demands of the
customer and the market,
and do we achieve this?
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Continued
5.Market Metric Forecast Actual Industry Effectiveness
Initial Goal Results Best Rating
Practice
Do changes in internet
marketing strategy need to
be avoided to allow the
customer to have effective
and consistent vision of the
organization, and do we
achieve this?
Did we effectively achieve a
coherent internet marketing
strategy that is necessary
across all brands?
To be effective do the
product marketing and
branding strategies need
consistency in the eyes of
the customer, and so do we
achieve this?
To be effective in getting
closer to the customer, does
the internet strategy have to
change over time to meet
the changing demands of the
customer and the market,
and do we achieve this?
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Continued
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TM -134
6.Technology Metric Forecast Actual Industry Effectiveness
Initial Goal Results Best Rating
Practice
Did the technology
infrastructure provide a
flexible base to
accommodate market
change?
Were the technology partners
chosen responsive?
Do the front office and back
office systems interface
effectively?
What is the mean time
between failures?
What is the average
bandwidth requirement?
What is the mean time to
upgrade a serve installation?
ΣER/6=
TM -135
7.Internet Site Metric Forecast Actual Industry Effectiveness
Initial Goal Results Best Rating
Metrics Practice
The number of hits per
month (as a measure of
customers’ interest and site
potential value)?
The number of purchase per
registered customer per
month?
The average purchase size
per transaction?
The length of time a
registered customer spends
(as a measure of site
information value)?
The repeat visit rate by
registered users (as a
measure of site value)
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Continued
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Level I : Senior Strategic Management Group
Owner Value Metric Target Results Projected Effectiven
Criteria Chang ess Rating
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Table 9.2 E-value Map - Example
E-value Map:Strategic Perspective
Product
1. Perishable Products
Process Value Criteria Metrics
Baseline Results CSI’
Previous Present Previous Present Previous Present
Cycle Cycle Cycle Cycle Cycle Cycle
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The E-value Map
Ownership Value Map
Ownership Levels
Process Value Map
Results are assessed against the forecasts, and the
strategy and systems are modified based on
effectiveness and performance.
However, the correlation between the business
objectives and the metrics by which they are
measured must be carefully assessed.
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Waves of the Future –
Issues that will Shape the Formulation of
Strategy: Waves of Change
Government
& Political
Changes
Technology Service
Changes Changes
The Agile
Branding E-commerce
Market
Changes Organization
Changes
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Future Waves (continued)
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Brand Changes (continued)
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Future Waves (continued)
The Brand
development Reinforcement
and execution
of a successful
strategy in
each of the Customer Customer Customer Customer
Internet service Acquisition Support Fulfillment Continuance
value chain Support
(Prepurchase (During (Purchase
segments is Support) Purchase) Dispatch) (Postpurchase)
vital for any
organization
wishing to
Customer Service Channel
operate all or
part of its
business online The value chain models the development of an organization’s
relationship with a customer over time
N
153
Future Waves (continued)
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Figure 10.3 Three Factors Impacting Market Change
Global
Market
Development
Market
Dynamics
Market Market
Hubs Segmentation
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Future Waves (continued)
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Future Waves (continued)
N
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Future Directions:
Agile and e-Organization Confluence
The virtual economy will reshape the very nature
of organizations, forcing them to transform
themselves from rigid structure to agile structures.
The organizations will move from competitive
strategies based on scale of economy to
competition based on low-volume, mass-
customized production and from vertical and
horizontal structures to polymorphic structures
composed of communities of collaborative e-
Commerce.
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Commentary on the Road Ahead
No organization is immune to the contact and
presence of the Internet and the technology that
surrounds it.
Those organizations that are successful going
forward will be those who manage to balance
their strategy in all of its areas; those
organizations that are very successful will be
those that manage not only to live within the
waves of change but to influence them.
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THANKS and GO for your e-Era !!
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