作者: Peter Baloh
DOI: 10.28945/2866
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摘要: Introduction To succeed in the global marketplace, companies must reposition themselves to tap sources of sustainable growth. One characteristics information era transition period is that, comparison traditional raw materials processing, processing has become instrumental businesses' success. At same time, contributed competitiveness, shortened their responsiveness environmental changes, and enlarged inventory business practices for successful market performance. Why do than so many companies, who yearly spend billions on new technological solutions, struggle understand how put work that it would support improve As suggested by Davenport, 2000, reason sparse harvest "technological obsession" which links company's competitive advantages exclusively with IT investments. vendors consultants claim have panacea every possible 'situation', yet they forget disclose just one (important) factors a use, leads achievement organization's goals. Not only everyday practice but also academic research shows "even most rigorous economists difficulty finding correlations between spending productivity, profits, growth, revenues or any other measure financial benefit," (Davenport, 2000; see Strassman, 1990, Bharadway, 2000). In spite some succeed. (Good) already indicated informatization or/and transformation e-business models are related optimization renovation processes, training motivation employees, adaptation organizational structure, general improvement culture, management, etc. Yet, until recently, there was no "complete cookbook recipe". year 28-month study called "Navigating Business Success" conducted at IMD school, Lausanne, Switzerland, conjunction Andersen Consulting (Marchand, Kettinger, & Rollins 2001a). Authors surveyed over 1,000 senior executives from 98 privately publicly held operating 22 countries 25 industries. essence, results showed strong combination 1) excellence investing deploying technology, 2) collecting, organizing maintaining information, 3) getting people embrace right behaviors values working can lead superior According research, managers possess higher-level idea, 'Information orientation' (IO), embraces three basic capabilities associate effective use: Information Technology Practices (ITP), Management (IMP) Behaviors Values (IBV). Interesting enough, each areas recognized as important past academia practitioners, however, were considered separately isolated schools thoughts. "A company achieve competence synergy across all use precondition achieving performance," (Marchand et al., first section orientation will be briefly discussed (for in-depth analysis Baloh, 2004; Marchand et.al., 2001a) present management sees subsystem (successful) organization. These CEOs' view systems professionals knowledge workers, whom depends on, since success fast utilize proper information. For doing jobs competencies somewhat broader used include ample technology literacy, awareness proactive behavior. …