IAB202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Business Network, Business Process, Interconnectivity
Document Summary
The benefits from it deployment are marginal if only superimposed on existing organisational conditions (especially strategies, structures, processes, cultures: the benefits accrue in those cases where investments in it functionality accompany corresponding changes in organisational characteristics. Evolutionary transformation levels: localised exploitation, deployment of isolated systems at a decentralised level as response to operational challenges. Standard it applications with minimal changes to the business processes (so easy to imitate by competitors) Scope & benefits: transaction processing, inventory movement, process linkage (for unstructured tasks) and knowledge leverage. Core logic of organisational strategy: business processes designed (3) to support the logic of business scope definition (5) and the specific positions in the business network (4). Major transformation considerations: evolutionary or revolutionary level. Internal integration (2) > business process redesign (3) Internal or external: business process redesign (3) > business network redesign (4, new business logic, business network redesign (4) > business scope redefinition (5)
