Paul Pierce
Senior lecturer
Using Alliances to Cut the Learning Curve of ICT
Author
Editor
- Řepa Václav
- Tomáš Bruckner
Summary, in English
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is arguably an important, emblematic and ubiquitous technology of contemporary society. For many incumbent firms, the infusion of ICT into their industries poses both threats and opportunities. It might drive significant shifts of financial wealth and make firm performance change drastically. It entails managerial challenges of a kind we might not have seen before, but where knowledge of what possibilities and limitations reside in ICT will be a key success factor. One strategy to incorporate ICT-capability is developing the capability in-house; another strategy is to shortcut the learning curve and form alliance with someone having ICT-capability. By applying a design science approach a framework for ICT-capability transfer is put forth, a framework based on 62 interviews from stakeholders with experience of ICT-motivated alliances. By using this framework the risk of failure is reduced.
Department/s
- Department of Informatics
Publishing year
2016
Language
English
Pages
247-261
Publication/Series
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume
261
Document type
Conference paper
Publisher
Springer
Topic
- Computer and Information Science
- Learning
- Business Administration
Keywords
- Alliances
- Design science
- ICT-Capability
- ICT competence
- Knowledge acquirement
- Capability transfer
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-3-319-45321-7
- ISBN: 978-3-319-45320-0