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2005S Eb Ch03 Strategic Planning
2005S Eb Ch03 Strategic Planning
E-Business
Chapter 3
E-Business strategy formulation
Why focus on e-business
planning?
Important trends enabled by IT and Internet
Ability to re-engineer supply chains
Use of information to smooth out inefficiencies &
bottlenecks, & thus achieve efficiency & effectiveness
gains
Ability to re-engineer relationships with customers
Manipulate large amounts of information about
customer to identify trends, preferences
Improve decision making about delivering on customer
value proposition
Ability to use Internet to disseminate information
throughout organisation
Results in more efficient internal operations
Why focus on e-business
planning?
Strategy vital to achieving benefits of
these trends
IT adopting more strategic role
Concern about delivery of business value
To realise value, need to undertake strategic
analysis of possibilities of IT and Internet
‘High stakes’ with IT investments
Need to recognise and manage risk, and
weigh this against the achievement of
organisational objectives
Why focus on e-business
planning?
IS Strategy
Senior IS
Specialist planners
management
Representatives
from different
functions
Senior executives
Trading partners?
Major customers?
Problems of NOT planning
competitors gain competitive advantage
business goals unachievable due to systems
limitations
organisational information resource not
adequately exploited
systems not integrated
duplication of effort
inaccuracy
poor management information
lack of commitment from senior executives
Problems of NOT planning
Strengths Weaknesses
Self 1. … 1. …
Environment 2. … 2. …
1. …
tunities
Oppor-
Attack Strenghten
2. …
1. …
Threats
Protect Retreat
2. …
Industry and product
lifecycles
Product and service
portfolios
Product lifecycle – emergence
demand is uncertain
market ill-defined
I/IS/IT focus:
market research
product development
Product lifecycle – growth
I/IS/IT focus:
support growth
must not inhibit ability to satisfy demand
create barriers to entry
tie in suppliers and customers
high investment needed
Product lifecycle – maturity
competition increases
supply starts to exceed demand
fight to retain market share
Product lifecycle – maturity
I/IS/IT focus:
defensive strategy
understand competition
increase productivity
more efficient, effective use of resources
build up customer switching costs
better management of supply and distribution
channels
Product lifecycle – decline
I/IS/IT focus:
detailed and accurate management info
demand forecasts
profitability of customers, products
cost controls
Product and service lifecycle
Political/legal
Government legislation, taxation, industrial relations,
privacy, environmental protection requirements, etc.
Economic
Stage of economic cycle, unemployment, inflation,
interest rates, relative affluence of society
Sociocultural
Lifestyle changes, demographic characteristics,
income distribution, consumer preferences, etc.
PEST Analysis (cont.)
Technological
Rate of technological innovation, rate of infusion
and diffusion with respect to technology
Consider key environmental influences,
drivers of change and how these might change
over time
For e-businesses, consider how technological
change is driving changes in other areas
Consider role of IT in exploiting of mitigating
against the effects of these changes
Threat of new entrants
Barriers to entry will be high if
economies of scale are extremely important
capital requirement of entry is high
access to distribution channels is difficult
patents or specialist skills are required
there are a large number of existing rivals
existing rivals are large and strongly
positioned
Threat of new entrants (cont.)