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Competing with
Information Technology
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Learning Objectives
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Learning Objectives
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Case 1: Reinventing IT as a Strategic Business Partner
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Case Study Questions
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Case Study Questions
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Strategic IT
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Competitive Forces and Strategies
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Five Competitive Strategies
Strategies
Alliance Innovation
Growth
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Using Competitive Strategies
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Ways to Implement Basic Strategies
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Other Competitive Strategies
Strategy
Leverage investment in IT
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Customer-Focused Business
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Providing Customer Value
Supply products,
services, and Tailor customer Use CRM
information services to the systems to focus
anytime, individual on the customer
anywhere
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Building Customer Value via the Internet
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The Value Chain and Strategic IS
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Using IS in the Value Chain
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Strategic Uses of IT
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Reengineering Business Processes
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The Role of Information Technology
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Reengineering Order Management
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Becoming an Agile Company
Global competition
Standardized mass- Niche products
market products and
services Individualized
Long-lived Short-lived
Information poor Information rich
Exchanged in one-time
Exchanged on an
transactions
ongoing basis
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Becoming an Agile Company
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Strategies for Agility
An agile company…
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How IT Helps a Company be Agile
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Creating a Virtual Company
Organizations Assets
People Ideas
Customers Competitors
Suppliers Subcontractors
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A Virtual Company
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Virtual Company Strategies
Share
Link Reduce
information &
complimentary concept-to-cash
risk with
core time through
alliance
competencies sharing
partners
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Building a Knowledge-Creating Company
A knowledge-creating company
or learning organization…
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Two Kinds of Knowledge
Explicit Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge
Successful knowledge
management
– Creates techniques,
technologies, systems,
& rewards for getting
employees to share
what they know
– Makes better use
of accumulated
workplace and
enterprise knowledge
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Knowledge Management Techniques
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Knowledge Management Systems (KMS)
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Knowledge Management Systems (KMS)
Knowledge includes…
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Case 3: Wachovia and Others
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Case Study Questions
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Case Study Questions
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