1. 2 - 1 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

2. 2 - 2 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Competing with Information Technology Chapter 2

3. 2 - 3 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Identify several basic competitive strategies and explain how they can use information technologies to confront the competitive forces faced by a business. Identify several strategic uses of Internet technologies and give examples of how they give competitive advantages to a business. Learning Objectives

4. 2 - 4 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Learning Objectives Give examples of how business process reengineering frequently involves the strategic use of Internet technologies. Identify the business value of using Internet technologies to become an agile competitor or to form a virtual company Explain how knowledge management systems can help a business gain strategic advantages.

5. 2 - 5 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Why Study Strategic IT? Technology is no longer an afterthought in forming business strategy, but the actual cause and driver. IT can change the way businesses compete.

6. 2 - 6 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Strategic View of Information Systems Information systems are vital competitive networks. Information systems are a means of organizational renewal. IS are a necessary investment in technologies that help a company adopt strategies and business processes that enable it to reengineer or reinvent itself in order to survive and succeed in today’s dynamic business environment.

7. 2 - 7 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Strategic Information Systems Definition: Any kind of information system that uses information technology to help an organization gain a competitive advantage, reduce a competitive disadvantage, or meet other strategic enterprise objectives.

8. 2 - 8 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Competitive Forces and Strategies

9. 2 - 9 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Competitive Forces Definition: Shape the structure of competition in its industry.

10. 2 - 10 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Porter’s Competitive Forces Model To survive and succeed, a business must develop and implement strategies to effectively counter the: Rivalry of competitors within its industry Threat of new entrants into an industry and its markets Threat posed by substitute products which might capture market share Bargaining power of customers Bargaining power of suppliers

11. 2 - 11 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Competitive Strategies Cost Leadership Differentiation Innovation Growth Alliance

12. 2 - 12 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Cost Leadership Strategy Becoming a low-cost producer of products and services Finding ways to help suppliers and customers reduce their costs Increase costs of competitors

13. 2 - 13 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Differentiation Strategy Developing ways to differentiate a firm’s products and services from its competitors’ Reduce the differentiation advantages of competitors

14. 2 - 14 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Innovation Strategy Development of unique products and services Entry into unique markets or market niches Making radical changes to the business processes for producing or distributing products and services that are so different from the way a business has been conducted that they alter the fundamental structure of an industry

15. 2 - 15 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Growth Strategy Significantly expanding a company’s capacity to produce goods and services Expanding into global markets Diversifying into new products and services Integrating into related products and services

16. 2 - 16 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Alliance Strategy Establishing new business linkages and alliances with customers, suppliers, competitors, consultants, and other companies

17. 2 - 17 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Competitive Strategy Examples

18. 2 - 18 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Other Competitive Strategies Locking in customers or suppliers by building valuable new relationships with them. Building switching costs so a firm’s customers or suppliers are reluctant to pay the costs in time, money, effort, and inconvenience that it would take to switch to a company’s competitors.

19. 2 - 19 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Other Competitive Strategies Raising barriers to entry that would discourage or delay other companies from entering a market. Leveraging investment in information technology by developing new products and services that would not be possible without a strong IT capability.

20. 2 - 20 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Advantage vs. Necessity Competitive Advantage – developing products, services, processes, or capabilities that give a company a superior business position relative to its competitors and other competitive forces Competitive Necessity – products, services, processes, or capabilities that are necessary simply to compete and do business in an industry

21. 2 - 21 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Customer-Focused Business A business that: can anticipate customers’ future needs. responds to customer concerns. provides top-quality customer service.

22. 2 - 22 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. IS in a Customer-Focused Business

23. 2 - 23 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Value Chain Definition: View of a firm as a series, chain, or network of basic activities that add value to its products and services, and thus add a margin of value both to the firm and its customers.

24. 2 - 24 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Value Chain

25. 2 - 25 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Value Chain

26. 2 - 26 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Business Process Reengineering Definition: Fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in cost, quality, speed, and service.

27. 2 - 27 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. BPR vs. Business Improvement

28. 2 - 28 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Cross-Functional Processes

29. 2 - 29 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Agility Definition: The ability of a company to prosper in rapidly changing, continually fragmenting global markets for high-quality, high performance, customer-configured products and services.

30. 2 - 30 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Agile Company Definition: A company that can make a profit in markets with broad product ranges and short model lifetimes, and can produce orders individually and in arbitrary lot sizes.

31. 2 - 31 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Mass Customization Definition: Providing individualized products while maintaining high volumes of production

32. 2 - 32 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Agile Competitor

33. 2 - 33 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Virtual Company Definition: An organization that uses information technology to link people, organizations, assets, and ideas.

34. 2 - 34 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Interenterprise Information Systems Definition: Information systems implemented on an extranet among a company and its suppliers, customers, subcontractors, and competitors with whom it has formed alliances.

35. 2 - 35 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Virtual Company

36. 2 - 36 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Virtual Company Strategies Share infrastructure and risk with alliance partners. Link complementary core competencies. Reduce concept-to-cash time through sharing.

37. 2 - 37 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Virtual Company Strategies Increase facilities and market coverage. Gain access to new markets and share market or customer loyalty. Migrate from selling products to selling solutions.

38. 2 - 38 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Knowledge-Creating Companies Definition: Consistently creating new business knowledge, disseminating it widely throughout the company, and quickly building the new knowledge into their products and services.

39. 2 - 39 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Types of Knowledge Explicit Knowledge – data, documents, things written down or stored on computers Tacit Knowledge – the “how-tos” of knowledge, which reside in workers

40. 2 - 40 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Knowledge Management Definition: Techniques, technologies, systems, and rewards for getting employees to share what they know and to make better use of accumulated workplace and enterprise knowledge. Knowledge Management Systems – manage organizational learning and business know-how

41. 2 - 41 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Levels of Knowledge Management

42. 2 - 42 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Summary Information technologies can support many competitive strategies including cost leadership, differentiation, innovation, growth and alliance. IT can help Build customer-focused businesses Reengineer business processes Businesses become agile companies Create virtual companies Build knowledge-creating companies

43. 2 - 43 Copyright © 2006, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. End of Chapter Chapter 2