The Role of Information Systems in Promoting Strategic Agility in Supply Chains

Mavengere, Nicholas B.

doi:10.1080/15228053.2013.10845726

Cited by 7 publications

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“…The need for strategic agility in the ever-changing business environment leads to IT adoption that has been perceived as an enabler in improving an organisation's performance (Dobner et al, 2017). A similar study on technology adoption in the supply chain context resulted in the same finding (Mavengere, 2013).…”

Section: Hypotheses Analysissupporting

confidence: 54%

The roles of uncertainty avoidance and strategic agility in cloud storage adoption among multinational manufacturing companies in Malaysia

Supramaniam

Teoh

2019

IJSSM

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Cloud technology adoption is becoming a key sustainable information technology (IT) strategy for companies in developing countries with an investment potential of US$900 million by 2020. This study examined the antecedents and outcome of cloud storage adoption among multinational manufacturing companies (MNCs) in Malaysia. A total of 122 responses were collected and analysed with SmartPLS 3.2.7. Results show that relative advantage, top management support, technology readiness, cost saving and stakeholder pressure significantly influence cloud storage adoption; while uncertainty avoidance moderates the relationship between technology readiness and adoption. Interestingly, cloud storage adoption impacts firm performance while strategic agility enhances this relationship. This study provides a new perspective by examining the influence of national culture and strategic agility in the context of cloud storage adoption and its outcome among MNCs in Malaysia. In conclusion, this study contributes holistic and meaningful insights to IT practitioners and researchers in adopting cloud technology as a sustainable IT strategy.

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Section: Hypotheses Analysissupporting

confidence: 54%

The roles of uncertainty avoidance and strategic agility in cloud storage adoption among multinational manufacturing companies in Malaysia

Supramaniam

Teoh

2019

IJSSM

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“…interacting with customers and suppliers). Thus, knowledge conversion into new explicit knowledge opens up pathways for knowledge exchange and promotes knowledge exploitation across different entities, which is important to highlight organizational strengths and weaknesses in light of external environmental changes (Mavengere, 2013).…”

Section: Strategic Agilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…33 RD BLED ECONFERENCE ENABLING TECHNOLOGY FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY Resource fluidity denotes an organizational internal ability and integral component to redeploy resources timely in response to change (Y. L. Doz & Kosonen, 2010;Paul P. Tallon & Pinsonneault, 2011). Resource fluidity is needed by all stakeholders to develop an informed and coherent transformation strategy, which has the capacity to respond to required product and business model adjustments (Mavengere, 2013). However, aligning strategic and operational agility requires embedding IT in critical business processes to enable rapid response to process changes (Paul P Tallon, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This means which way and configuration of strategic agility and which parameters are best suited for certain circumstances and how can these be achieved and measured? Functional agility was a particular focus of research (Kwon, Ryu, & Park, 2018;Mavengere, 2013;Vessey & Ward, 2013). Despite extensive research, no general model was identified that would motivate to close the gap between strategic and operational agility.…”

Section: Limitations and Research Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

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The user experience of personalized content

Mejtoft¹,

Lindmark²,

Söderström³

et al. 2020

33rd Bled eConference – Enabling Technology for a Sustainable Society: June 28 – 29, 2020, Online Conference Proceedings

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Content in digital services is often filtered for users based on individual preferences with the possible consequence of creating a state referred to as a “filter bubble”. The objective of this paper is to examine which of a user’s inherent needs that are important to satisfy when a user is consuming personalized content in a digital service. The paper uses a survey to measure the need for autonomy, competence and relatedness of the SelfDetermination Theory when users are consuming filtered content in digital services. The results show that the investigated services fail to satisfy all needs. A satisfactory user experience should include the opportunity for the user to satisfy the need for autonomy, competence and relatedness. For autonomy, transparency of filtering and choice about filtering should be offered. For competence, it is essential to offer content that the user can learn from, and also provide the right amount of choice throughout the service. The danger of filter bubbles is not personalization, but to remove choice about personalization.

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“…Agile business-IT alignment overall agility, as well as IT agility (Heckler and Powell, 2016). Mavengere (2013) suggested the need for management of companies operating in competitive and dynamic industries to embrace strategic agility as a measure to survive the competition and gain competitive advantage (Mavengere, 2013). Mithas et al (2008) described information management capability provides the base capabilities through which firms can build higher-order capabilities.…”

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A dynamic model of effective factors on Agile business–IT alignment

Bigdeli

Motadel

Eshlaghy

et al. 2019

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Purpose This paper aims to present a dynamic model based on casual relationships among the most important effective factors on business–IT alignment in Agile businesses by using system dynamics modeling approach. Design/methodology/approach To study the most important factors on agility and alignment, the data were collected by questionnaires filled by 201 experts and were analyzed by SPSS and PLS. Casual relationships among studied factors and efficiency coefficients of each factor were identified by fuzzy DEMATEL technique and analyzed by MATLAB and EXCELL. Finally, the dynamic model was plotted by VENSIM. Findings According to the results, only “learning IT capabilities” are the most important casual factor that has the highest influence on the other factors. “Business responding capabilities” take the highest effect from the system, and “business sensing capabilities” are in the next rank. Practical implications This study underpins effective IT deployment toward developing efficient IT capabilities to gain greater agility. Originality/value The dynamic capabilities view (DCV) has emerged as an influential theoretical and management framework in modern IS and agility researches. In this regard, we propose a conceptualization of dynamic capabilities in the form of an alignment model. Based on the dynamic capabilities, and on the alignment perspectives found in Henderson and Venkatraman’s seminal model, IT alignment is modeled as a process of reconfiguration of the firm’s IT and organizational resources, competencies and capabilities.

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The Role of Information Systems in Promoting Strategic Agility in Supply Chains

Cited by 7 publications

References 38 publications

The roles of uncertainty avoidance and strategic agility in cloud storage adoption among multinational manufacturing companies in Malaysia

The roles of uncertainty avoidance and strategic agility in cloud storage adoption among multinational manufacturing companies in Malaysia

The user experience of personalized content

A dynamic model of effective factors on Agile business–IT alignment

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