... alignment: (1) Align – more rigorous types of alignment: structure alignment, strategic congruence and strategy alignment; (2) Fit – less rigorous types of alignment: contingency strategic adjustment, strategic coalignment and strategic consistency. Companies are accumulating large amounts...

... characteristics, which concern four important aspects of it, its strategy, processes, personnel and technology, on the propensity to adopt CC. Design/methodology/approach Having as theoretical background the technology, organization and environment (TOE) theory of technological innovation adoption...

... with this at a managerial level – perhaps the chain is broken. Education Information management Strategy Information systems Information technology It was noted that when faced with change, people often give up too easily: this is true of both teachers and learners. There are signs that some educators...

...Shrinivas Patil; Winai Wongsurawat Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the roles various drivers such as cost, strategy and risk play when business process outsourcing/information technology enabled services (BPO/ITES) firms in India outsource their information technology...

... is thus a central aspect of an organization’s strategy (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995 ; Nonaka et al., 2006). It is also known that the impact of IT on organizational knowledge creation processes is high (Davenport, 2007 ; Nonaka et al., 1996), yet the subject remains under-researched...

... empirical study and qualitative inputs. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is then used to apply the framework. The framework is finally validated in three India‐based banks. Findings The proposed framework helps in creating a strategic alignment between the business strategy and information system...

...Janice Burn; Greg Robins Looks at an online strategy project at Legal Aid in Western Australia. Begins with an overview of e‐government and the Western Australian Government context, and then discusses the research model and methodology. Gives a background to the case and analyses the change...

...Scott Gardner; Colin G. Ash Presents a preliminary framework for making sense of and managing change in organisations that have adopted information systems and e‐commerce as a core element of their business strategy. Argues that the relatively low level of organisational benefits realised...

...D.B. Ilozor; B.D. Ilozor This paper reports findings on the significance of management communication strategies to telecommuting, based on a survey of telecommuters at IBM Australia. With increased adoption of telecommuting, many strategies have been proffered to ensure that telecommuters have...

... on major European offset programmes. The theoretical underpinnings of the study are based on a strategic positioning approach to bidding, which is underpinned by the positioning school of strategy that grew out of Porter’s conceptual work on competition, a major theme of which is the proposed relationship...

... competences to gain differential advantage. The essence of these sophisticated solutions will be information. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Strategy Logistics 42 LOGISTICS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 4,3 L ogistical management means using logistical competence strategically. Achieving and Maintaining...

... management philosophy on the large number of suppliers on whom depends the very survival of hundreds of JIT buyers are examined. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Just‐in‐time Production Purchasing Strategy Supply JUST-IN-TIME: SUPPLIER-SIDE STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS 45 A JIT system makes demands...