... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Digital transformation Firm value Cost leadership strategy Differentiation strategy Strategic management With the rise of big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and other technologies, the industrial sector is undergoing deep...

...] consists of three strategic building blocks: resources, businesses and organisation. As these three elements are developed along three time dimensions – short‐term (operational management), medium‐term (strategic management) and long‐term (normative management) – the model represents both a static (e.g...

...Simon Cadez; Chris Guilding Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of different configurational archetypes of strategy and strategic management accounting and to appraise how management accounting's horizontal and vertical alignment with strategy can facilitate...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Quality management Strategic management Networking Managers In increasingly unpredictable environments, organizations need the capacity to carry out the strategic changes necessary to find timely solutions to solve the problems they face (Shimizu...

... firms competing in the market (Rumelt, 2009). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Spain Technology led strategy Strategic management Managers Technology is considered to be one of the main resources for competitive advantage and represents a critical strategic asset for firms...

.... Design/methodology/approach Four aspects of each company's operations are explored and compared in this side‐by‐side case study. The foci of this study are strategic management, logistical infrastructure, information technology deployments, and marketing strategies. Findings The success of Peapod...

... enhance SMEs' supply‐chain management and collaboration capabilities within networks (Brown and Lockett, 2004). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Advanced manufacturing technologies Small to medium‐sized enterprises Strategic management Gestalt psychology Business performance...

... of managing the information flow underlying the strategic business process has been proposed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Business process re‐engineering Process analysis Customer satisfaction Value chain Strategic management Executives practicing the art of strategy must...

.... Advanced manufacturing technologies Economic sustainability Strategic management Technology led strategy Advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) represents a wide variety of modern technologies devoted to improving operational efficiency and, as a consequence, the competitiveness...

...Wann‐Yih Wu; Chih Hsiung Chou; Ya‐Jung Wu In currently facing dynamic environments, the tools of strategic management appear to be more and more important in improving the quality of decision‐making. Among the great Chinese wisdoms, Sun Tzu's, The Art of War, is probably the oldest...

... each capital request as a stand‐alone project having no relationship to either current or future ventures. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Strategic management Cost analysis Accounting policy Accounting theory Constraint handling High labor efficiency and machine utilization measures...

... system. The output mode will shift system priorities, providing a 60 percent focus on the removal of products from the AS/RS system. This mode is invoked when the high rises in reaching near full capacity. Quality Automated guided vehicles Strategic management The Frito‐Lay Kern plant...

... strategic management framework is formulated, which guides the system design. The second part will introduce the fundamentals of software agent approach, examine its relevance in offering the needed support, and describe an agent system that is currently under development. scheduling meetings...

... of hearing the “customer is number one” come to believe it and fail to evaluate the extent to which it is actually operative in the firm. Attempts to give a background for strategic management and organizational effectiveness and to relate a current observation to answer the question: do we do what we say we...

... proved to be effective for transmitting information in a timely manner, which is critical at this level. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Decision making Executive information systems Strategic management Top management Executive support systems (ESS) are computer‐based systems that provide...

..., as well as other disparate IS strategy literature. Discusses the limitations of the existing literature, and puts forward the stakeholder approach to strategic management because it is seen to offer a more complete basis for analysing the impact of information systems and interorganizational systems...

..., planning, implementation and measurement and control between various levels of management will be meaningless. Despite this, the management approach remains largely tactical, expense‐oriented and short‐sighted. Structures for strategic management of information systems and associated facilities have...