Beyond strategic information systems: towards an IS capability

Peppard, Joe; Ward, John M.

doi:10.1016/j.jsis.2004.02.002

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“…IT innovation capabilities are unique and valuable resources of a firm with great potential to contribute to competitive performance [83] and leveraging structural resource differences including diversification, flexibility, and quality among competing firms [84]. Using the unique capabilities of information technology, firms are able to fuse IS and business knowledge to ensure that technological innovation is captured at strategy conception [85], improve their innovation capabilities [86] and innovative performance [87] since innovation process is knowledge intensive [88].…”

Section: Is Support For Technological Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the acquisition, deploying, and leveraging of IS resources to shape and support business strategies and value chain activities depends on the IS capabilities of a firm [65]. Through IS capability, business and IS knowledge can be fused; a flexible and reusable IT platform is developed; organisations innovate with IS/IT to effect change and to adapt business processes and practices (often referred to as agility) [85]; and organisations gain a sustained competitive advantage and superior performance [56]; [103]. Empirically, IT support for strategic assets contributes to the performance of a firm [92].…”

Section: Is Support For Strategic Assetsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Impact of IS Strategy and Technological Innovation Strategic Alignment on FirmPerformance

Obeng¹,

Mkhize²

2017

IJITCS

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Abstract-The alignment between information systems strategy and business strategy as an important driver of competitiveness has predominantly been assessed through quantitative methods without exploring in detail factors that influence strategic alignment and their implications for perceived business performance. Most IS-business strategic alignment studies dominantly focus on entire business and IS strategies resulting in many findings that are too general and inconclusive. This study aims at assessing strategic alignment factors, their interrelationships, and how they influence the IS-business alignment and its consequential effect on the performance of six universal banks in Ghana. The study followed the systematic procedure of grounded theory design and adopted qualitative dominant crossover mixed analysis. The findings of the study indicate strategic alignment between information systems strategy and technological innovation impacts positively on the performance of a firm where IT utilization complements resources and capabilities.

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Section: Is Support For Technological Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Is Support For Strategic Assetsmentioning

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Impact of IS Strategy and Technological Innovation Strategic Alignment on FirmPerformance

Obeng¹,

Mkhize²

2017

IJITCS

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“…From an information system (IS) perspective, the evaluation of the IS level indicates the total capability that includes IS vision, IS infrastructure, IS support, and IS application and usage [4], [13]. From researching these studies, we define the firm IT capability (FITC) as the total IT capability that a firm has to retain to efficiently support its management activities and perform tasks in an IT environment [4]- [13].…”

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“…From researching these studies, we define the firm IT capability (FITC) as the total IT capability that a firm has to retain to efficiently support its management activities and perform tasks in an IT environment [4]- [13].…”

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Measurement of Firm IT Capability to Efficiently Perform Business Tasks in an IT Environment

Yoon¹

2016

IJIET

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Abstract-In an IT environment, enterprises have applied IT to their management and business activities. It is very important that a firm efficiently apply IT to its management activities and to improve the performance of tasks. The measurement and management for a firm IT capability need to improve the management and business performance in an IT environment. Perceived measures are necessary for a firm to gauge its IT capability, for it to manage and improve its IT capability. The first measurement items were developed from the research of previous literature and expert reviews. The 16-item scale was extracted by the validity and reliability analysis from the first generated measurement items. The developed tool can be utilized for efficiently measuring a firm IT capability in terms of a comprehensive IT capability.Index Terms-Information technology (IT), firm it capability, measurement factor and item, measurement tool. I. INTRODUCTIONNowadays, enterprises are performing their management activities and business tasks in an IT environment. Most firms are applying IT (Information Technology) to the management and business activities for improving their business performance. They cannot efficiently perform the demands of global market without efficiently applying IT to their businesses. Enterprises have built information systems to raise business task performance and improve competitiveness [1]-[3]. IT is an important way to improve and preserve a firm's task performance in the ever-changing business environment [4]. In this environment, it is indispensable to apply IT to the business activities of a firm. Managing and building an IT environment appreciate for a firm is very important to improve an enterprise's IT ability for management activities and task performance. In order to manage and improve its IT environment, we need a scientific and objective tool that can measure its IT capability. Firm IT capability should be improved by objective criteria based on the measurement results. Previous study has barely studied such a tool to gauge firm IT capability. The enterprise's IT ability has only been researched from specific perspectives, not for a firm's entire IT capability [4]- [7]. That is, we need a measure that can gauge a firm ability of IT applications in terms of its general IT ability.Hence, this study present a measurement scale that can Manuscript received August 10, 2014; revised November 19, 2014. The research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (NO: 2013R1A1A2012350).Chui Young Yoon is with the Department of IT Applied-Convergence, Korea National University of Transportation, Chungbuk, 368-701, South Korea (e-mail: yoon0109@ut.ac.kr).efficiently gauge a firm IT capability (FITC) for efficiently performing business tasks in an IT environment and for effectively establishing and improving its IT environment in a total IT ability perspective. II. PREVIOUS STUDIESIn previous li...

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“…While an upper bound has little meaning, there is a sense of a minimum requirement (Peppard and Ward 2004). Namely: the costs of IT should be exceeded by the delivered benefits, and both should be known accurately.…”

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An Integrated IT Risk Model

Jordan

2005

SSRN Journal

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Beyond strategic information systems: towards an IS capability

Cited by 557 publications

References 67 publications

Impact of IS Strategy and Technological Innovation Strategic Alignment on FirmPerformance

Impact of IS Strategy and Technological Innovation Strategic Alignment on FirmPerformance

Measurement of Firm IT Capability to Efficiently Perform Business Tasks in an IT Environment

An Integrated IT Risk Model

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