Paper Type
ERF
Description
About Sun Tzu’s Art of War, lots of research have been done. However, most of them were fragment studies, that’s, done by sampling one or two management doctrines. About its core, the system thinking, few has been conducted using a General Systems Theory. What’s more, these studies were in most cases a theoretical one. The objective of digital transformation (DT) was re-establishing organization’s business model through innovation by using digital technologies to sharpen organization sustainable competitiveness, it is just like a war champaign. This study is to use case study method to show how Sun Tzu’s System Thinking could be used in DT to defeat potential rivals to maintain competitive advantage. The combination of theoretical study and practitioner application will be of high value both to those practitioners in digital transformation process and contribute academically to research methods in the future study of Sun Tzu’s Art of War.
Paper Number
1948
Recommended Citation
Guo, Keyong Monty, "Digital Transformation from Sun Tzu’s System Thinking Perspective" (2023). AMCIS 2023 Proceedings. 8.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2023/sig_phil/sig_phil/8
Digital Transformation from Sun Tzu’s System Thinking Perspective
About Sun Tzu’s Art of War, lots of research have been done. However, most of them were fragment studies, that’s, done by sampling one or two management doctrines. About its core, the system thinking, few has been conducted using a General Systems Theory. What’s more, these studies were in most cases a theoretical one. The objective of digital transformation (DT) was re-establishing organization’s business model through innovation by using digital technologies to sharpen organization sustainable competitiveness, it is just like a war champaign. This study is to use case study method to show how Sun Tzu’s System Thinking could be used in DT to defeat potential rivals to maintain competitive advantage. The combination of theoretical study and practitioner application will be of high value both to those practitioners in digital transformation process and contribute academically to research methods in the future study of Sun Tzu’s Art of War.
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