Three Worlds Of It
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The document discusses managing the three types of IT - network IT, enterprise IT, and technologies that make standalone tasks efficient - to gain a competitive advantage. It suggests selecting IT to enable business agility, setting priorities with an inside-out approach, and putting technologies to productive use through adoption and exploitation to extract maximum benefits such as increasing precision, facilitating collaboration, and standardizing workflows. Managing the deployment, innovation opportunities, and propagation of IT from top-down and bottom-up is also discussed.
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Three Worlds Of It
- 1. IT - Enabling business agility in a dynamic world Mastering the three worlds of IT & Investing in IT that makes a competitive difference
- 2. Building an effective IT model Managerial or technical challenge? How IT affects an Organization? What needs to be done to ensure the success of IT initiative? Comparison with GPT’s Aligning business & IT Strategy – A big problem
- 3. The Three categories of IT Function IT Includes technologies that make the execution of stand alone tasks efficient With or without complements Companies must identify the complements Ducati experience shows: Enhancing experimentation capacity Increasing precision
- 4. The Three categories Contd.. Network IT Facilitates interactions Includes e-mail, IM, blogs etc. Dresdner Kleinwort Wassertein shows: Facilitating collaboration Allowing expressions of judgement Fostering Emergence
- 5. The Three categories Contd.. Enterprise IT Specifies business processes or restructuring Applications that define entire business processes like ERP, SCM etc. Top down in approach CVS example shows: Redesigning business processes Standardizing work flows Monitoring activities and events efficiently
- 6. Managing the Three types of IT IT Selection What do we need IT to do for us? Setting IT priorities An inside out approach Cisco example: Nine order status tools Different definitions for key terms
- 7. Managing Contd.. IT Adoption Putting the technology to its productive use BMW’s FIT example: Computer-aided styling (CAS) Three months moratorium Boston-based hospital’s EIT example: Handwritten prescriptions to be replaced with online orders
- 8. Managing Contd.. IT Exploitation Extracting the maximum benefits America’s cup sailing competition’s example: New zealand team won because of extensive use of simulation models Dresdner Kleinwort’s NIT example Sysco’s EIT exmaple
- 9. Gaining a competitive difference Deployment: The management challenge Innovation: IT-enabled opportunities Propagation: Top down and Bottom up