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The roles and responsibilities of chief digital officers
Many organizations have created a new managerial position – the chief digital officer (CDO) – in response to the challenges and opportunities that digitalization holds. Studies show that CDOs may take important roles in digital transformation of organizations, but also that role expectations can be unclear and hard to meet. It is therefore important for organizations to understand what makes CDOs successful.
Using big data analytics to improve healthcare
Big data analytics (BDA) is increasingly advocated as one of the most important IT innovations for healthcare organizations. Potential benefits include improving quality of care, reducing waste and error, and reducing the cost of care. However, healthcare organizations struggle to gain the benefits from their BDA investments. Improving the ability to exploit big data is therefore a central concern for practitioners.
Creating value from big data
Big data is heralded as the next big thing for organizations to gain a competitive edge, and it has become the focus of academic and corporate investigation due to its high operational and strategic potential. However, many big data projects provide disappointing results. It is therefore important to understand the mechanisms and processes through which big data can add value to organizations.
The changing role of the IT department
As IT is increasingly embedded in products and services, customer and supplier relationships, and business processes, the role of the IT department expands to impact core functions and business strategies. This may require changes in work processes, structures, and competence requirements.
Information systems strategy
IT competence
Digital transformation
Improving performance by developing competence of IT staff
The competence of IT staff is shown to positively affect strategic alignment and organizational agility. Investing in IT assets and competence is therefore important, but also involves risk of producing rigidity.
The productivity paradox of information technology
The productivity paradox of information technology refers to an observed inconsistency between technological advances and productivity growth. Many studies show that information technologies have no effect on performance in an off themselves – rather, they must be combined with other organizational resources to create competitive advantage.
Organizational agility
Information systems strategy
IT and innovation
Business – IT alignment
Responding to disruptive digital innovation
Digital innovations challenge the existence of traditional organizations and cause severe systemic effects in industries and markets. Building capabilities to respond to such digital disruptions is therefore a central concern for many organizations.
Organizational agility
IT and innovation
Digital transformation
Digital leadership
Improving the value of strategic IS research for practitioners
Many information systems scholars address issues that are of high practitioner concern, and results from collective research efforts can provide meaningful advice to practitioners in areas of high strategic importance. This requires effective exchange of relevant knowledge between researchers and practitioners.
Information systems strategy
Business – IT alignment
Digital transformation
Digital leadership
Use of ICT to tap on external resources for innovation
Many studies show that organizations’ innovation performance can be improved by use of knowledge from external sources. How can ICT enable efficient management and integration of external knowledge?