This article recalls the business process discussion between Carr, who stated that IT does not matter, and Smith and Finger, who proclaimed the opposite. In the end, both visions agreed that IT (or process deployment) counts, but must follow the business strategy (or process modeling). The present study broadens the discussion towards business process maturity, which is a more recent perspectiv...

Like any emerging field, eBusiness is changing fast and in so doing it is changing the way businesses formulate their strategies and conduct their business through realisation of those strategies. This paper identifies issues involved in the formulation of eBusiness strategy, steering towards defining the process in object terms, proceeding to develop a framework encompassing the eBusiness stra...

The dominant rational approach to rr-centered strategic change derives from the positioning literature in business strategy. It assumes a single best path to successful organizational transformation. Three cases are used to show that, in practice, there are multiple alternadve paths. The strategic IT and business strategy literatures are critiqued in terms of the process of fit so as to explain...

Knowledge management (KM) has attracted significant attention from researchers and practitioners as a facilitator of firm performance. Even though companies have implemented KM, they offers inconsistent support that KM enhances firm performance. Thus, we examine that KM process is a critical variable through which infrastructure capability and business strategy effect firm performance. Data fro...

Many prior studies suggest that alignment between business strategy and IT strategy is a dynamic and continuous process, but few of them provide theoretic frameworks for this phenomenon. For new ventures, the alignment process involves with the process of resource reconfiguration to sustain competitive advantages in a velocity environment. Thus, in this paper we applied the dynamic capability p...

Effective and efficient e-business strategy development is crucial to achieve a competitive advantage in the electronic marketplace. However, e-business strategy evaluation constitutes complex and dynamic challenges for business management. This paper offers assistance for the evaluation process by applying a computer simulation that uses an econometric model delivered through a decision making...