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Devising And Testing An Instrument Designed To Mitigate The Paradox Between The Traditional Disconnected World And The Evolution In Collaborative Ict, Peter Gall
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This paper begins by defining ontology of ICT concepts including virtual organisations, living labs and digital ecosystems in an effort to identify practical answers to the paradox between the traditional disconnected world and collaboratively networked, open, loosely coupled environments. The paper then introduces a framework and case study that devises a new instrument designed to enable organisations in unleashing the power of their ICT infrastructure to take advantage of the values of the globally competitive networks in the 21st Century. The pervasive use of modern infrastructure and collaborative ICT frameworks have the potential to create sustainable multi-organisation, multi-institution, multi-linkage industry …
Evaluating Virtual Organisational Preparedness, Peter Gall, Janice Burn
Evaluating Virtual Organisational Preparedness, Peter Gall, Janice Burn
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As organisations enter an era of information superhighways, expanded electronic commerce, and “virtualness,” executives increasingly realise that in addition to business strategy influencing IT, IT now influences business strategy (Rockart et al., 1996). Hirschheim and Sabherwal (2001) confirmed the validity of previous findings and determined that it is important for organisations to understand the dynamic and emergent nature of business-information systems alignment. Recent perspectives on strategy argue that the basis for achieving competitive advantage, even short term advantage, lies in the configuration of resources that enable value creation through a sustained dynamic and continuous process of adaptation and change (Wheeler, …
Strategic Alignment In The Virtual Organisation, Peter Gall, Janice Burn
Strategic Alignment In The Virtual Organisation, Peter Gall, Janice Burn
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This paper reviews the literature in relation to virtual E-business models and strategies. From this the authors develop a framework to test two new strategic alignment instruments designed to measure the espoused readiness of an organisation to collaborate virtually and the actual preparedness to operate virtually. These instruments will assist organisations in recognising and exploiting their degree of virtuality and can assist organisations in developing new organisational forms that fully leverage the value of their ICT assets.