Unit 3
Strategic Role of Information
Systems
, • Unit 3 - Strategic Role of Information Systems
1. Information systems and business strategies
1. Strategic planning for e-markets --> 6 Strategic drivers - Deloitte Consulting
2. Critical success factors for e-business --> Turban et al (2000)
3. E-business strategy - Robert Plant (2000) --> Positional factors & Bonding factors
4. Dot-com strategies - Venkatraman (2000) --> comes with five questions
5. Competitive or cooperative strategies
2. Using systems for competitive advantages
1. Channel enhancement strategies
2. Sell channels
3. Buy channels
3. Organisational impacts
1. Organisational impacts
2. Value chain integration
3. Value Chain Analysis
4. Applying the supply chain management approach
5. The logistics paths
6. Driving supply chain management
7. Knowledge exchange and enabling technology
4. E–business and chain effects
1. Supply chain management (SCM)
2. Demand chains
3. Virtual value chains
5. The e-business planning process
1. Strategic options
2. Organisationally focused sites
3. Audience focus
4. Business focus
,Information systems and business strategie
, Strategic planning for e-markets
6 Strategic drivers - Deloitte Consulting
1. Consumers instructions
• for many retail products, Internet-based software agents called “shop-bots” will search for products, compare prices, condu
and arrange for delivery – all on instructions that consumers provide them.
• The resulting price competition will transfer net benefits from many producers to consumers
• branding and advertising will still have roles to play in the process.
2. Products moving from physical form into digital bits
• Certain types of products will move from physical form into digital bits in order to be transported from producer to consum
• These products will adapt their form so they can be delivered over the Internet to reduce costs.
• Software, publications, music industry have already begun this process.
• At the same time, the line between producer and consumer will blur as producers allow consumers to participate in t
creating the unique product desired.
Strategic Role of Information
Systems
, • Unit 3 - Strategic Role of Information Systems
1. Information systems and business strategies
1. Strategic planning for e-markets --> 6 Strategic drivers - Deloitte Consulting
2. Critical success factors for e-business --> Turban et al (2000)
3. E-business strategy - Robert Plant (2000) --> Positional factors & Bonding factors
4. Dot-com strategies - Venkatraman (2000) --> comes with five questions
5. Competitive or cooperative strategies
2. Using systems for competitive advantages
1. Channel enhancement strategies
2. Sell channels
3. Buy channels
3. Organisational impacts
1. Organisational impacts
2. Value chain integration
3. Value Chain Analysis
4. Applying the supply chain management approach
5. The logistics paths
6. Driving supply chain management
7. Knowledge exchange and enabling technology
4. E–business and chain effects
1. Supply chain management (SCM)
2. Demand chains
3. Virtual value chains
5. The e-business planning process
1. Strategic options
2. Organisationally focused sites
3. Audience focus
4. Business focus
,Information systems and business strategie
, Strategic planning for e-markets
6 Strategic drivers - Deloitte Consulting
1. Consumers instructions
• for many retail products, Internet-based software agents called “shop-bots” will search for products, compare prices, condu
and arrange for delivery – all on instructions that consumers provide them.
• The resulting price competition will transfer net benefits from many producers to consumers
• branding and advertising will still have roles to play in the process.
2. Products moving from physical form into digital bits
• Certain types of products will move from physical form into digital bits in order to be transported from producer to consum
• These products will adapt their form so they can be delivered over the Internet to reduce costs.
• Software, publications, music industry have already begun this process.
• At the same time, the line between producer and consumer will blur as producers allow consumers to participate in t
creating the unique product desired.
