Three operational models for ambidexterity in large corporations

Pitfalls of Electronic Commerce in Large Corporations

To enable businesses to maximise value and achieve benefits from electronic commerce, it is imperative to identify, analyse and overcome challenges that lie ahead those engaging in conducting the business electronically. The research presented in this paper reports on the pitfalls – challenges of electronic commerce encountered among the top 500 Australian publicly listed companies. The results...

Groupware Effectiveness in Large Latin American Corporations

Large corporations are looking at Third World countries, particularly in Latin America, to expand their supply and production channels with foreign offices and personnel. Access and experience with technology of those enterprises will determine, in part, the speed at which an organization can expect to fully integrate these new channels and manage remote projects in this area of the world. This...

Opportunity Recongition for Highly Profitable Projects in Large Corporations

Opportunity Recognition (OR) was studied in highly profitable platform and radical or discontinuous products developed in large billion dollar companies. Platform projects, which provides a whole new offering to the company and did not require high risk technologies, required a trigger event to get started, had a long gestation period and required senior management sponsorship. In contrast OR i...

Ambidexterity

a faculty as the right, and in many callings the power of equal use is very convenient. An ophthalmic surgeon for example who can use either hand indifferently for delicate eye operations can do his work more quickly and neatly than the man who can only trust his right hand. In piano and organ playing and in performing on most musical instruments ambidexterity is indispensable. Indeed in violin...

13.2 Patterns of Growth of Large Corporations