Title :
System Level Analysis of How Businesses Adjust to Changing Environment in the Digital Eco-System
Author :
Hol, A. ; Ginige, Athula ; Lawson, Robyn
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Western Sydney, Sydney
Abstract :
Today, in the Information era businesses live in a dynamic environment where decisions need to be made quickly as otherwise they would not be able to survive. To investigate how businesses adjust to changing requirements in the Digital Eco-System we used the Cynefin Framework and its dimensions. Through a review of the literature, it was identified that there are two distinctive types of organisations: task-based and process-based. Although, in reality the majority of organisations these days fit somewhere in between. Furthermore, we found that organisations which are more process-based adapt to environmental changes more quickly than those that are task-based. Therefore, to be able to act quickly and make decisions in the Digital Eco-System task-based organisations are encouraged to eTransform and become process-based.
Keywords :
decision making; electronic commerce; management of change; organisational aspects; Cynefin framework; decision making; digital eco-system; dynamic environment change; eTransformation; information era; process-based organisation; system level analysis; task-based organisation; Australia; Chaos; Communications technology; Decision making; Ecosystems; Environmental management; Information analysis; Mathematics; Organizational aspects; Uncertainty; Cynefin Framework; Digital Eco-System; eTransformation;
Conference_Titel :
Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, 2007. DEST '07. Inaugural IEEE-IES
Conference_Location :
Cairns
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0470-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0470-3
DOI :
10.1109/DEST.2007.371962