USING EISs FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING

Frolick, Mark N.; Parzinger, Monica J.; Rainer, R. Kelly; Ramarapu, Narender K.

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“…To ensure that executives receive scanning findings in an amount and form that facilitates effective decision making, their reporting should cover critical opportunities and threats. For a periodical presentation, we propose linking the identified opportunities and threats with a companies' management control (Ansoff 1980;Frolick et al 1997). We propose the form of an economic value added at risk tree (Chen et al 2011, Figure 6).…”

Section: Methods: Approaches Lack To Incorporate Results Of Environmementioning

confidence: 99%

“…More important, Fuld (2003) showed that companies often fail to act on generated environmental scanning information, either by measuring the impact of identified opportunities and threats on (financial) performance indicators or incorporating the results of ESS in executives' decision making process per se. Frolick et al (1997) argue to embed EIS into the environmental scanning process. EIS can enhance identifying issues, establishing means of scanning, delineating sources of external information and decision making.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The use of supportive, predefined and easyto-handle user interfaces for data access or common IT languages, such as XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), facilitate accessing relevant information sources by automated routines to systematically monitor the movements of the most important indicators. To save even more cost and time to process information gathering data through computerized notes is proposed (Frolick et al 1997). …”

Section: Second Finding: Define Concrete Indicators and Use Is To Idementioning

confidence: 99%

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Abstract. The 2008/2009 economic crisis provided a sustainable impulse for improving environmental scanning systems (ESS). Although a rich body of know-ledge exists, concepts are not often used in practice. This article contributes a literature review addressing six findings for ESS design to become more applicable than the state of the art. They are structured by the elements of information systems (IS) design theories. Addressing the lack of a sound requirements analysis, our first finding proposes 360-degree ESS for executives' "managing a company" task and presents how to select just the most important scanning areas to keep focus. Three other findings cover the IS model perspective focusing on a better "grasp" of weak signals: define concrete indicators and use IT to identify relevant cause-effective-chains, leverage IT to automate dayto-day routines and monitor the variety of indicators' movements, and-as a fourth finding-leverage expert experience with an impact matrix and translate indicators' impact into a balanced opportunity-and-threat portfolio. From the methods perspective on ESS, we propose to more closely incorporate scanning results into executives' decision-making process by generating scenarios from a set of environment assumptions as well as to use retrospective controls to continuously update the ESS and collaborate to share the scanning findings day-to-day.

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Section: Methods: Approaches Lack To Incorporate Results Of Environmementioning

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Section: Second Finding: Define Concrete Indicators and Use Is To Idementioning

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“…Given a specification of the user's interest, the scanner needs to identify the seeds from which IOI gathering and monitoring are started and conducted as a routine job. An example application of web scanning is business environmental scanning, which has been identified as an essential continuous task for many business activities such as decision making [1] and product development [2]. Since the user's job and preferences are relatively long-term, the user's interest is relatively long-term as well [3].…”

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Incremental mining of information interest for personalized web scanning

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2005

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“…Elements of IS design theories -(user) requirements, models, and methods -combined with the research approach applied offer a rigorous framework for structuring the literature (Mayer, Steinecke, and Quick 2011). Figure 1 illustrates the following research gaps: Sound requirements analysis is missing (Figure 1, first column left): Most of the publications, for example Frolick, Parzinger, Rainer Jr., and Ramarapu (1997) (Chen, Chau, and Li 2011) or scenarios based on opportunity and threat analysis are not specified (Fontela 1976). Since research approaches (Figure 1) are not the focus of this article, gaps in this dimension are not specified here.…”

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USING EISs FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING

Cited by 22 publications

References 3 publications

Improving the Applicability of Environmental Scanning Systems: State of the Art and Future Research

Improving the Applicability of Environmental Scanning Systems: State of the Art and Future Research

Incremental mining of information interest for personalized web scanning

Improving Environmental Scanning Systems Using Bayesian Networks

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