The Duality of IT There’s a duality to IT that creates dilemmas for business leaders. This duality, manifest in the following five forms, gives IT the power to reshape the strategic agenda of organizations. First, IT enables both sustaining and disruptive innovation. Thus, a key strategic issue for digital business strategists involves discerning whether an IT innovation is sustaining, disrupti...

Digitalization does fundamentally impact firms’ strategy development. With the fusion of IT and business strategy, Digital Business Strategy (DBS) creates the foundation for digital business models [1]. In this paper, we develop a DBS framework, based on a structured review of 21 industry reports. From this analysis, we yield 8 generic dimensions with a total of 40 critical success factors (CSF...

the current limited focus on management in global health activities is highly problematic given the amounts of financial and human resources that are pouring into health system strengthening interventions and the complexity of clinical operations across settings. by ensuring that public health and healthcare practitioners in domestic and international settings receive management training in the...

there is a little room for doubt that lake urmia, which is the second largest permanent hyper saline lake in the world,is currently suffering from a lack of appropriate management strategy. accordingly, this study was done using the swotmatrix to analyze the key factors affecting declining water levels and increasing salinity. results of group decisionmakingby brainstorming among a group of exp...

Environmental responsibility is evolving into a crucial aspect of strategic management as regulations are expected to tighten significantly in the near future following the need to mitigate the effects of climate change. Many businesses react to this challenge by implementing environmental reporting and management systems. However, often the environmental programme is not properly integrated in...

visitor management is considered important for the sustainable development of protected areas as the presence of visitors may cause negative impacts on wildlife and vegetation. within this framework, visitor impacts and perceptions are considered critical for decision-making and planning of future management regimes. this paper resumes opinions of visitors of the valley of butterflies in rhode...

This section is a collection of shorter “Issue and Opinions” pieces that address some of the critical challenges around the evolution of digital business strategy. These voices and visions are from thought leaders who, in addition to their scholarship, have a keen sense of practice. They outline through their opinion pieces a series of issues that will need attention from both research and prac...

There is a trend in fashion product industry that firms launch new styles of their products more frequently. To investigate the optimal style launching strategy for a fashion firm, we propose a twoperiod pricing model for a fashion product firm. The firm sells a style of products in the first period as well as that he may utilize three different strategies in the second period, i.e., (i) the N-...