Digital Innovation, Entrepreneurship and New Business Models
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Complete
Paper Number
1616
Description
This paper explores the structure and design of Digital Strategic Initiatives (DSI) defined as identifiable competitive moves that depend on digital resources to create and appropriate economic value. We use the term digital deliberately, in line with the recent push for discerning the so-called IT “x” and Digital “x” phenomena. Our explicit focus on strategic information systems leads to three contributions. First, the paper precisely defines digital strategic initiatives and digital resources, clarifying the difference between digital resources and traditional constructs such as IT resources and IT-enabled resources. We posit that the defining characteristics of digital resources are their modular design, encapsulation of value, and programmatic bitstring interface. Second, the paper shows how the design and development of digital strategic initiatives thrives in an infrastructural, combinatorial, and servitized environmental context. Third, it proposes implications of our theorizing and raises unanswered questions of import to research and practice.
Recommended Citation
Piccoli, Gabriele; Rodriguez, Joaquin; and Grover, Varun, "Strategic Initiatives and Digital Resources: Construct Definition and Future Research Directions" (2020). ICIS 2020 Proceedings. 5.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2020/digital_innovation/digital_innovation/5
Strategic Initiatives and Digital Resources: Construct Definition and Future Research Directions
This paper explores the structure and design of Digital Strategic Initiatives (DSI) defined as identifiable competitive moves that depend on digital resources to create and appropriate economic value. We use the term digital deliberately, in line with the recent push for discerning the so-called IT “x” and Digital “x” phenomena. Our explicit focus on strategic information systems leads to three contributions. First, the paper precisely defines digital strategic initiatives and digital resources, clarifying the difference between digital resources and traditional constructs such as IT resources and IT-enabled resources. We posit that the defining characteristics of digital resources are their modular design, encapsulation of value, and programmatic bitstring interface. Second, the paper shows how the design and development of digital strategic initiatives thrives in an infrastructural, combinatorial, and servitized environmental context. Third, it proposes implications of our theorizing and raises unanswered questions of import to research and practice.
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