Developing Digitalization Strategies for SMEs: A Lightweight Architecture-based Method
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Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: January 3-7, 2022. ed. / Tung X. Bui. Honolulu: HICSS Conference Office, 2022. p. 4869-4878 ( Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; Vol. 55).
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T1 - Developing Digitalization Strategies for SMEs
T2 - 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
AU - Tschoppe, Nils
AU - Drews, Paul
N1 - Conference code: 55
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Like larger companies, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need to develop and implement digitalization strategies. These help to address necessary organizational- and technology-related changes in order to create competitive advantages. However, SMEs often face specific challenges, including a lack of IT know-how, relevant market information and appropriate methods for developing a strategy. In this paper, we present a lightweight, architecture-based method including its underlying model for the development and implementation of digitalization strategies in SMEs. It was developed by following the Action Design Research (ADR) method and in cooperation with two medium-sized companies. Rather than adopting highly abstract and complex enterprise architecture (EA) frameworks, we suggest creating easy-to-use visualizations of the enterprise architecture, the business ecosystem and related cross-layer dependencies. While transferring the discipline of EA into the context of digital entrepreneurship, we derived four design principles which help to enrich the theoretical body of knowledge in this research area.
AB - Like larger companies, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need to develop and implement digitalization strategies. These help to address necessary organizational- and technology-related changes in order to create competitive advantages. However, SMEs often face specific challenges, including a lack of IT know-how, relevant market information and appropriate methods for developing a strategy. In this paper, we present a lightweight, architecture-based method including its underlying model for the development and implementation of digitalization strategies in SMEs. It was developed by following the Action Design Research (ADR) method and in cooperation with two medium-sized companies. Rather than adopting highly abstract and complex enterprise architecture (EA) frameworks, we suggest creating easy-to-use visualizations of the enterprise architecture, the business ecosystem and related cross-layer dependencies. While transferring the discipline of EA into the context of digital entrepreneurship, we derived four design principles which help to enrich the theoretical body of knowledge in this research area.
KW - Business informatics
KW - Making Digital Transformation Real
KW - digital entrepreneurship
KW - Digitalization strategy
KW - digital transformation
KW - enterprise architecture
KW - small and medium-sized enterprises
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U2 - 10.24251/HICSS.2022.593
DO - 10.24251/HICSS.2022.593
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
T3 - Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 4869
EP - 4878
BT - Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
PB - HICSS Conference Office
CY - Honolulu
Y2 - 3 January 2022 through 7 January 2022
ER -