This chapter discusses competitive strategies and how information systems can provide competitive advantages. It outlines Porter's Five Forces model for assessing competition and describes generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Information systems can enable these strategies by reducing costs, developing differentiated features, and identifying innovations. The chapter also discusses value chains for identifying opportunities where information systems can add value and create advantages for organizations. Finally, it introduces concepts of business ecosystems and co-opetition, where both competition and cooperation occur among industry members.
This chapter discusses competitive strategies and how information systems can provide competitive advantages. It outlines Porter's Five Forces model for assessing competition and describes generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Information systems can enable these strategies by reducing costs, developing differentiated features, and identifying innovations. The chapter also discusses value chains for identifying opportunities where information systems can add value and create advantages for organizations. Finally, it introduces concepts of business ecosystems and co-opetition, where both competition and cooperation occur among industry members.
This chapter discusses competitive strategies and how information systems can provide competitive advantages. It outlines Porter's Five Forces model for assessing competition and describes generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Information systems can enable these strategies by reducing costs, developing differentiated features, and identifying innovations. The chapter also discusses value chains for identifying opportunities where information systems can add value and create advantages for organizations. Finally, it introduces concepts of business ecosystems and co-opetition, where both competition and cooperation occur among industry members.
This chapter discusses competitive strategies and how information systems can provide competitive advantages. It outlines Porter's Five Forces model for assessing competition and describes generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Information systems can enable these strategies by reducing costs, developing differentiated features, and identifying innovations. The chapter also discusses value chains for identifying opportunities where information systems can add value and create advantages for organizations. Finally, it introduces concepts of business ecosystems and co-opetition, where both competition and cooperation occur among industry members.
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-91216-89-3_2, Atlantis Press 2013 27 Chapter 2 Information Systems for Competitive Advantages This chapter will review competitive forces and competitive information systems strategies for gaining competitive advantages, explain concepts of value chain, value web and business eco- systems & co-opetition, and discuss innovation strategy. 2.1 Competitive Strategies Gaining competitive advantage is critical for organisations. Baltzan and Phillips (2010, p. 16) dene competitive advantage as a product or service that an organizations cus- tomers value more highly than similar offerings from its competitors (in other words, you have something useful (i.e. products, services, capabilities) that your competitors do not have). Competitive advantages are typically temporary as competitors often seek ways to duplicate the competitive advantage (Baltzan & Phillips 2010, p. 16). In order to stay ahead of competition, organisations have to continually develop new competitive advan- tages. This section discusses how an organisation can analyse, identify, and develop com- petitive advantages using tools such as Porters Five Forces, three generic strategies, and value chains. Michael Porters Five Forces Model is a useful tool to assist in assessing the competition in an industry and determining the relative attractiveness of that industry. Porter states that in order to do an industry analysis a rm must analyse ve competitive forces (Baltzan & Phillips 2010, p. 17): 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. 28 Managing Information Systems: Ten Essential Topics To survive and succeed, a business must develop and implement strategies to effectively counter the above ve competitive forces. OBrien and Marakas (2011, p. 49) suggest that organisations can follow one of ve basic competitive strategies, which are based on Porters three generic strategies of broad cost leadership, broad differentiation, and focused strategy. The ve competitive strategies are: cost leadership, differentiation, innovation, growth, and alliance. Meanwhile, information systems could be a critical enabler of these ve competitive strategies (see Table 2.1). Table 2.1: Competitive Strategies & Roles of Information Systems Competitive Strategy Roles of Information Systems Cost Leadership Organizations can use information systems to fundamentally shift the cost of doing business (Booth, Roberts & Sikes 2011) or reduce the costs of business processes or/and to lower the costs of customers or suppliers, i.e., using online business to consumer & business to business models, e-procurement systems to reduce operating costs. Differentiation Organizations can use information systems to develop differentiated features or/and to reduce competitors differentiation advantages, i.e., using online live chatting systems and social networks to better understand and serve customers; using technology to create informe- diaries to offer value-added service and improve customers sticki- ness to your web site/business(Booth, Roberts, and Sikes 2011); ap- plying advanced and established measures for online operations to ofine practices (i.e., more accurate and systematic ways of measur- ing efciency and effectiveness of advertising) (Manyika 2009). Continued on next page Information Systems for Competitive Advantages 29 Table 2.1 continued from previous page Competitive Strategy Roles of Information Systems Innovation Organizations can use information systems to identify and create (or assist in creating) new products and services or/and to develop new/niche markets or/and to radically change business processes via automation (i.e., using digital modelling and simulation of product design to reduce the time and cost to the market (Chui & Fleming 2011). They also can work on new initiatives of establishing pure online businesses/operations. At the same time, the Internet and telecommunications networks provide better capabilities and oppor- tunities for innovation. Combinational innovation and Open inno- vation are two good examples. There are a large number of compo- nent parts on the networks that are very expensive or extremely dif- ferent before the establishment of the networks, and organizations could combine or recombine components/parts on the networks to create new innovations (Manyika 2009). Meanwhile everyone is connected via personal computers, laptops and other mobile devices through cabled Internet or wireless networks or mobile networks, there are plenty of opportunities to co-create with customers, exter- nal partners and internal people. Growth (including mergers and acquisitions) Organizations can use information systems to expand domestic and international operations or/and to diversify and integrate into other products and services, i.e., establishing global intranet and global operation platform; establishing omni-channel strategy to gain growth(omni-channel strategy looks at leveraging advantages of both online (or digital) and ofine (or non-digital) channels) (Rigby 2011). Strategic Alliance Organizations can use information systems to create and enhance relations with partners via applications, such as developing virtual organizations and inter-organizational information systems. (Source: Developed from OBrien and Marakas 2011, pp. 4951; Manyika 2009; Chui and Fleming 2011; Rigby 2011; Booth, Roberts, and Sikes 2011; The Authors Own Knowledge) 30 Managing Information Systems: Ten Essential Topics On top of these ve basic strategies, companies can also adopt other competitive strate- gies facilitated by information systems to shape their competitive advantage. Some exam- ples include (OBrien & Marakas 2011, p. 5052; Chui & Fleming 2011; The Authors Own Knowledge) are: Locking in customers or suppliers by enhancing relations and building valuable new re- lationships via customer/partner relationship management systems/ applications (i.e., pro- viding a banks customers with multiple touch points via telephones, Internet, fax ma- chines, videos, mobile devices, ATMs, branches, the banks agents). Building switching costs via extranets and proprietary software applications (i.e., Ama- zons user-friendly and useful B2C website and Alibabas B2B platform) so that a rms customers or suppliers are reluctant to pay the costs in time, money, effort, and bear the inconvenience of switching to a companys competitors. Raising barriers to entry through improving operations or/and optimizing/attening or- ganizational structure by increasing the amount or the complexity of the technology re- quired (i.e., Googles search engine and P & Gs digitization strategy/efforts-P & G is working on digitizing almost every aspect of its operation to make it the worlds most technologically enabled rm). 2.2 Value chain Another important concept and tool that can help a business identify competitive advantage and opportunities for strategic use of information systems is Porters value chain model. The value chain approach views an organisation as a chain, or series, of processes, and it classied an organizations activities into two categories: primary activities (i.e., in- bound logistics, operations, sales & marketing, customer service, outbound logistics) and secondary/support activities (i.e., administration, human resources, technology, procure- ment) (OBrien & Marakas 2011, p. 56; Laudon & Laudon 2012, p. 135). The value chain helps an organisation determine the value of its business processes for its customers. The model highlights specic activities in the business where competitive strategies can be best applied and where information systems are most likely to have a strategic impact. By creating/adding value and thus creating competitive advantages, information systems could contribute to each part of an organizations value chain and extended value chain (in- cluding interactions/ties with external partners and strategic alliances). By leveraging on the Internet technologies, organizations could also create a value web (Laudon & Laudon Information Systems for Competitive Advantages 31 2012, p. 137) or a hub structure, both of them look at improving the efciency and the effectiveness of value chain and supply chain by digitally connecting customers, suppliers, partners; by reducing the information gaps/errors along the chain (especially demand and supply); and by bettering communication, cooperation and collaboration. 2.3 Business Eco-systems and Co-opetition (Competition & Cooperation) In todays digital era, rms need to have a more dynamic view of the boundaries among rms, customers, and suppliers, with both competition and cooperation occurring with members of the industry set (more than one industry) (Laudon & Laudon 2012, p. 140). For example, car, plane, bus, train are in the same industry set of transportation. Another example is the way that traditional universities are now competing with online learning and other training and development rms. Business eco-systems refer to loosely coupled but independent network of suppliers, distributors, partners and strategic alliances (Laudon & Laudon 2012, p. 139). An excellent example of business eco-systems is the mobile Internet platform; industries such as mobile device manufacturers, software vendors, online services rms, Internet services providers are working together. Meanwhile in order to stay ahead of the competition, organizations need to actively establish their business ecosystems. For example, looking at the competi- tion between Apple and Sumsung, it can be said that Samsung is still very much a hardware player while Apple has been developing its ecosystemand venturing into areas of hardware, software, service, content and customer support in recent years (Wagstaff 2012). So who is doing better now? Another term reects the same meaning is Co-opetition. In order to succeed in to- days highly competitive market, rms also should practice co-opetition since not all strategic alliances are formed with suppliers or customers. Co-opetition is a strategy whereby companies cooperate and compete at the same time with their competitors, com- plementors (i.e. hardware and software businesses), customers, suppliers (Pearlson & Saunders 2004, p. 52). Through co-opetition, the best possible outcome for a business can be achieved by optimally combining competition and cooperation. A good example is Co- visint (http://www.covisint.com/), which is the auto industrys e-marketplace and is backed up by competitors of GM, Ford, Daimler Chryslers and others. Benets of Covisint include speed in decision-making, reduced supply chain costs and greater responsiveness in serving customers. 32 Managing Information Systems: Ten Essential Topics The downside to co-opetition is that it may be viewed as collusion. Many countries have legislation in force to deter anti-competitive or price-xing practices. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) in Australia has imposed huge monetary nes on companies and the directors of those companies found guilty of anti-competitive or price-xing practices. 2.4 Innovation Strategy 2.4.1 Open innovation strategy Open innovation emphasizes an organizations efforts of engaging and collaborating with external sources and its partners in its innovation process (Lichtenthaler, Hoegl & Muethel 2011). The telecommunications networks and Internet technologies have made the open innovation more appealing to organizations. Open innovation strategy has been adopted by many most innovative companies in the world. For example, 3M has been very successful in developing smart products via its open innovation approach-10,000 R &D people in 73 locations from 63 full-scale operating businesses across dozens of industries work together as well as working with large number of external partners via 300 joint programs and customers via 30 customer technology centers around the world (Jaruzelski, Holman & Baker 2011). One of the biggest barriers to promote open innovation in the organization is to do with employees attitudes of not-invented here and not-sold-here, some strategies to deal with such attitudinal tendencies include (Lichtenthaler, Hoegl & Muethel 2011): Clearly communicating open innovation strategy across the organization, especially the benets of opening up the innovation process to outside expertise. Demonstrated top management support: senior executives have to be champions and role models of open innovation strategy and simply providing lip services is not going to work. Establishing incentive/reward systems: need to reduce the traditional emphasis on internal-only innovation process and develop both monetary and non-monetary reward mechanism (i.e., granting open innovation award, providing opportunities to work in the partner organization for some time (especially in a different location/country) for open in- novation practice. Fostering pro-open innovation environment by working on organizational culture and structure. Information Systems for Competitive Advantages 33 One of the excellent/prominent examples or leaders of successfully implementing open innovation strategy is Mozilla Corporation, which has developed an open-source and free web browser: Firefox (currently at its 14.0.1 version and accounts for more than 24% of web browsers market) (Wikipedia 2012). It has extensively relied on external people (a broader group of volunteers) outside the rm for creative ideas, development of products, and decision making (in fact the number of outside contributors is much larger than that of internal people). What are some recipes for Mozillas huge success of open innovation strategy? Michelle Baker, Chairperson and former CEO of Mozilla Corporation provide with some answers (reported in Mendonca & Sutton 2008): Effectively managing the mode of participation: setting up frameworks where people can get involved in a very relaxed/decentralised way; having discipline in certain areas (i.e., programming codes going into the Firefox); putting quality control process in place; clearly specifying where input is needed; giving people the feeling of ownership thus inspiring their desire for creating an open, participatory and safe Internet. Balancing internal people and outside volunteers: you need both groups. Without the former Firefox wont be an established force while without the latter the Firefox project wont last for long. Having transparent and distributed decision-making process: decision-making process is unrelated to employment status (non-employees can also take part in the decision-making process). Having the condence that giving people control or voice in an elegant manner can create innovations and generate good opportunities (even revenue). Open management style: giving up some control and turning people loose (of course you need to gure out appropriate space and range) could bring in great results beyond expectation. Leaders of the organization also need to have the courage to acknowledge they are not perfect and admit when they are wrong! At the same time, by drawing on the experiences of successful open-source innovation initiatives (i.e., Wikipedia, ATLAS particle detector, Firefox web browser, Sun Microsys- tems Solaris operating systems, and others), Bughin, Chui & Johnson (2008) present sug- gestions for effective open innovation management: Attracting and motivating co-creators/contributors: organizations need to effectively understand motivations of contributors and provide the right incentives to the right people. Participants are largely interested in making a contribution and seeing it become a reality. And many contributors do enjoy non-nancial rewards, such as fun, fame/recognition, and 34 Managing Information Systems: Ten Essential Topics altruism. Trust and brand afnity are also important inuencing factors. People generally dont want to work with brands/rms they dont trust or like. Appropriate structure for participation: projects/problems need to be broken down into smaller ones and let contributors work parallel on different pieces. Having governance mechanism to facilitate co-creation: clear rules, leadership, and transparent processes for setting goals and resolving conicts should be established and clearly communicated. Quality assurance: a quality assurance process should be put into place. In addition, managing risks of open innovation is another critical issue. One typical risk is intellectual property (IP). Organizations need to clearly understand potential IP risks and the investments/costs associated with identied risks, and could take measures such as establishing IP sharing agreement or/and rewards/risks sharing arrangement to deal with IP issues (Alexy & Reitzig 2012; Bughin, Chui & Johnson 2008). Updating & maintaining open source code and providing technical support to users are also needed to be looked at (Pearlson & Saunders 2010, p. 340). 2.4.1.1 Googles way of innovation management Google is one of leaders in innovation management. What are some of its best practices? Googles Executive Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt provides us with some in- sights (reported in Manyika 2008): Believing the notion of wisdom of crowds argument: groups make better decisions than individuals, especially when the group are selected to be among the smartest and most interesting people. Having different views and always questioning/challenging established ways of doing thing: how can we do in different and better ways? Imposing a deadline: a good combination of exibility and discipline is required, and both of them are essential. Perfecting the art of encouragement: we believe the best ideas dont come from exec- utives. Providing people with time for new ideas: we allocate 20% time for people to pursue their ideas. Having small and undirected teams for innovation and give people space and time for thinking and reection: we believe innovation always has been driven by a person or a Information Systems for Competitive Advantages 35 small team that has the luxury of thinking of a new idea and pursuing it. . . Innovation is something that comes when you are not under the gun. . . . 2.4.1.2 Amazons way of innovation management Amazon, which developed the innovated and most successful B2C e-commerce model, is another great example of innovation management. Some things organizations can learn from Amazon regarding innovation management include (Dumont, Kaura & Subramanian 2012: The Authors Own Knowledge): Having business systems (can be easily broken into simpler sub-systems) and architec- ture (could be organized by simply plugging in modules and components) designed for rapid product development and quick responding to changes: Amazon has been success- ful in venturing into different areas and dealing with huge number of customers without diminishing service quality Having customer-centric mind-set: Amazon and its Zappos.com are examples of cus- tomer centric business-they provide what customers want and even beyond that. . . Having a good balance between control & speed and between vertical & horizontal integration to achieve differentiation and accelerate product cycles as well as venturing into new areas (especially adjacent markets). 2.4.1.3 Apples way of innovation management It could be argued that Apples way of innovation management centres on two perspectives: Steve Jobs innovation leadership User experience innovation developed through innovative product designs 2.4.2 When does it make sense to be an early IS/IT adopter? Another important and highly debated topic in innovation strategy management is when organizations should be early adopter of new technologies. Companies like eBay (online auction), Yahoo (Internet directory), and Apple computer (software/hardware) got there rst and leveraged their rst-mover/early adopter competitive advantage. Companies such as Citibank (ATM), Sony (video tape), Chemdex (B2B digital exchange), Netscape (Inter- net browser), lost their rst-mover advantages to late movers. Intel (microchip), America Online (Internet marketing), and Google (online search engine) are some good examples 36 Managing Information Systems: Ten Essential Topics of companies who were later movers but gained success over earlier adopters by being the best (Turban et al. 2006, p. 592). The rst mover in an industry has the advantage of being the rst to offer a product or service to the market. This can help create an impression that the rm is the pioneer or the initiator in the customers mind. In addition this rm will be able to capitalise on the demand for the product or service until another rm enters the market (Turban et al. 2006, p. 591). However, rst movers take the risk that new goods and services may not be accepted by the market. Some suggested factors that determine the success or failure of the rst mover strategy include (Turban et al. 2006, p. 591): Size of the opportunity: big enough opportunity for just one rm and the company is big enough for the opportunity Commodity products: simple enough to offer but hard to differentiate, i.e. books and airline seats. Products such as clothes and restaurants are more easily differentiated by later movers with better features and services encouraging a switch to late movers. Be the best: in the long run, best-mover advantage not rst-mover advantage determines the market leader, such as Apples iPhone, Googles search engine, Amazons e-commerce platform. In the long term, organisations have to keep on being innovative and investing in re- search and development (R & D) to stay ahead of the competition or even survive in the market. In fact, rms who are very active in innovation and seriously invest into their R &D are top performers. Some top spenders on R & D include: Toyota, General Motors, Ford, Honda, Volkswagan in the Auto industry; Pzer, Johnson & Johnson, Roche Hold- ing, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Sano-Aventis, AstraZeneca, Merck in the Health Care industry; Nokia, Samsung, IBM, Intel, Panasonic, Cisco Systemsin the Computing and Electronics industry; Microsoft in the Software and Internet industry, and Siemens in the Industrials sector (Jaruzelski & Dehoff 2008; 2010; 2011; Jaruzelski, Loehr & Holman 2012). On the other hand, it is argued the success in innovation isnt really about how much money you spend but about how you spend (you need to spend wisely so you do bet- ter with less). For example the most innovative rms identied in the 2010 & 2011 Global Innovation 1000 study (reported in Jaruzelski & Dehoff 2011 and Jaruzelski, Loehr & Hol- man 2012 respectively) (such as in 2010 Apple (invested US$ 1,782 million/ 2.7% sales revenue into R & D activities), Google (3,762 million/12.8%), 3M (1,434 million/5.4%), and GE (3,939 million/2.6%); and in 2011 Apple (US$ 2.4 billion/2.2%), Google (5.2 bil- lion/13.6%), 3M (1.6 billion/5.3%), Samsung (9.0 billion/6.0%) are serious about investing Information Systems for Competitive Advantages 37 into R & D but they are not top spenders on R & D (such as in 2010 Roche Holding (9,466 million/21.1%), Pzer (9,413 million/13.9%), Novartis (9,070 million/17.9%), Microsoft (8,714 million/14.0%; in 2011 Toyota (9.9 billion/4.2%), Novartis (9.6 billion/16.4%), Roche Holding (9.4 billion/19.6%), Pzer (9.1 billion/13.5%)). Other factors inuencing the success of innovation management include (Jaruzelski & Dehoff 2010; 2011; Jaruzel- ski, Loehr & Holman 2012): top managements innovation skills and attitude, innovation process (including effective management of ideas generation and the process of from idea generation to product development), alignment between innovation strategy and business strategy, and pro-innovation culture (i.e., strong customer focus and customer experience orientation, passion and pride for products and services offered). Among these ve factors, top managements innovation skills and attitude is the most important one. If top leaders are not willing to and not good at innovation, then the chance of the success of organiza- tional innovation efforts will be very slim, and they will not take the lead or do a good in developing innovation culture, establishing innovation process, and pushing the alignment between innovation strategy and business strategy. While established brands do help organizations in the marketplace, it is the continuous innovation efforts have provided them with sustainable growth and competitive advantage. It is particularly true in some industries (such as media and publishing- many examples of failed traditional news and referencing materials publishers as a result of emerging digi- tal content providers (i.e., Wikipedia, Google, Youtube and many others online players). Meanwhile when we are talking about innovation, we are referring not only to R & D for new products but also to changes and new things in the various parts of the business, such as business processes, customer services, marketing & sales, training & learning, tal- ent management, knowledge management, data collection & decision-making, design of organizational structure, intra-organizational & inter-organizational communications, pro- curement, payment systems, logistics management, among many others. Furthermore organizational learning (especially open learning) could be viewed as an important element of innovation, without effective and continuous learning and quick re- sponses to market changes, organizations wont be able to have the skills and knowledge for creative ideas. It can be said that even though the success and failure of the business is a result of multiple factors including management issues (such as leadership, management experiences and skills, decision making process, investment strategies), organizational fac- tors (such as culture, structure, processes, peoples skills), changes in the industry and in the marketplace, and economic conditions, the ability and commitment to continuous inno- 38 Managing Information Systems: Ten Essential Topics vation are denitely critical to the sustainable competitive advantage and long-term growth of the organization. In fact, innovation is the source of the added-values and prots, for example Chinese manufacturers working on OEM orders typically make very slim margin while the owner of the intellectual property owner does much better. If an organization is able to make its innovation accepted as industry standard, then competitive advantages and good nan- cial outcomes will be owing in easily-just looking at the competition between Googles Android operation system and Apples iOS (iphone operating system) for mobile devices. Furthermore when we are talking about using IS/IT for innovation, IS/IT alone wont be enough for successful innovation, and it is a joint effort of IS/IT and business (users), which needs a top-down push to deal with silo problems and foster cooperation (Roberts & Sikes 2011). On a related note, Kleiner (2012) argues that only a few rms (i.e., Amazon, Apple) have successfully locked down their intellectual capital (technological information), and most companies hope that the speed of innovation beats the risk of leaking information to competitors. Continuous innovation could be used for dealing with intellectual property issues. 2.5 Summary In this chapter an important dimension of information systems, identifying competitive ad- vantages and enhancing competitive strategies through information systems, was discussed. Organisations can apply tools such as Porters ve forces and value chain to analyse their competitive position, examine their competitive advantages, and identify relevant competi- tive strategies. Information systems can play a very important role in the success of organ- isations competitive strategies. However competitive strategies alone cannot create magic. 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