Article reviews
Digital innovation and institutional entrepreneurship: Chief Digital Officer perspectives of their emerging role
Sanja Tumbas. Nicholas Berente. Jan vom Brocke. (2018), Journal of Information Technology , 33 (3) , 188-202.
This article explores how Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) in different organizations make sense of, legitimize, and enact this emerging role. The authors discuss how CDOs drive digital innovation efforts and how they reconcile their role with existing institutional arrangements.
IT and innovation Digital leadership
Digital transformation strategy making in pre-digital organizations: The case of a financial services provider
Simon Chanias. Michael D. Myers. Thomas Hess. (2019), Journal of Strategic Information Systems , 28 (1) , 17-33.
This article reports on a study of the processes of dynamic and emergent strategy making related to formulating and implementing a digital transformation strategy in a pre-digital financial services organization
Information systems strategy Digital transformation Digital leadership
Paradoxes and the nature of ambidexterity in IT transformation programs
Robert Wayne Gregory. Mark Keil. Jan Muntermann. Magnus Mähring. (2015), Information Systems Research , 26 (1) , 57-80.
This article discusses tensions related to goals and priorities that managers need to resolve in IT transformation programs. These tensions are related to the need for managers to mutually accommodate business and IT interests, and balance short-term operational IT contributions and long-term efforts to revamp the IT-platform.
Digital transformation Digital leadership
Does information technology improve open innovation performance? An examination of manufacturers in Spain
Jaime Gómez. Idana Salazar. Pilar Vargas. (2017), Information Systems Research , 28 (3) , 451-679.
This article focuses on the role of IT in open innovation. Based on the argument that the costs of incorporating external knowledge into an organization’s innovation activities are reduced by IT that enable efficient management and integration of knowledge, the article studies the moderating effect of IT investments on open innovation performance.
IT and innovation
Leveraging customer involvement for fueling innovation: The role of relational and analytical information processing capabilities
Terence J. V. Saldanha. Sunil Mithas. M. S. Krishnan. (2017), Management Information Systems Quarterly , 41 (1) , 367-396.
This article seeks to increase the understanding of how IT enables customer-focused innovation in organizations. It examines how IT capabilities affect the relationship between customer involvement and innovation.
IT and innovation
Agility in responding to disruptive digital innovation: Case study of an SME
Calvin M.L. Chan. Say Yen Teoh. Adrian Yeow. Gary Pan. (2018), Information Systems Journal , 29 (2) , 436-455.
This paper reports on a case study investigating how an innovative small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) achieved agility to respond to disruptive digital innovation.
Organizational agility IT and innovation
Embracing digital innovation in incumbent firms: How Volvo Cars managed competing concerns
Fredrik Svahn. Lars Mathiassen. Rikard Lindgren. (2017), Management Information Systems Quarterly , 41 (1) , 239-253.
This article discusses how incumbent organizations must manage four interrelated competing concerns as they embrace digital innovation.
IT and innovation Digital transformation
Information systems use as strategy practice: A multi-dimensional view of strategic information system implementation and use
Viktor Arvidsson. Jonny Holmström. Kalle Lyytinen. (2014), Journal of Strategic Information Systems , 23 (1) , 45-61.
This article discusses challenges of implementing strategic change associated with information system implementation and use. The concept of strategy blindness is used to describe the incapability of an organization to realize the strategic intent of implemented, available system capabilities.
Information systems strategy Business – IT alignment
Information technology competencies, organizational agility, and firm performance: Enabling and facilitating roles
Anindita Chakravarty. Rajdeep Grewal. Vallabh Sambamurthy. (2013), Information Systems Research , 24 (4) , 976-997.
This article investigates the relationship between IT competencies and two types of organizational agility (adaptive and entrepreneurial). It shows that the impact of IT competencies depends on the level of environmental dynamism. The empirical context of the study is business-to-business electronic marketplaces.
Organizational agility IT competence
Enabling firm performance through business intelligence and analytics: A dynamic capabilities perspective
Russell Torres. Anna Sidorova. Mary C. Jones. (2018), Information & Management , 55 (7) , 822-839.
This study examines the relationship between firm performance and business intelligence and analytics (BI&A), which is defined as a variety of organizational information practices that rely on the use of information technologies and involve the application of analytical techniques.
IT competence Data & Business analytics Organizational agility