Omar A. El Sawy

TL;DR: The time is right to rethink the role of IT strategy, from that of a functional-level strategy--aligned but essentially always subordinate to business strategy--to one that reflects a fusion between IT strategy and business strategy, herein termed digital business strategy.

TL;DR: This paper contends that the underlying theoretical basis of EIS can be addressed through a design theory of vigilant information systems, and research on managerial information scanning and emerging issue tracking as well as theories of open loop control are synthesized to generate vigilant information system design theory propositions.

TL;DR: It is suggested that IS researchers should look beyond the direct effects of firm-level IT infrastructures and focus their attention on how business units can leverage IT functionalities to better reconfigure and execute business processes in turbulent environments.

TL;DR: This study uncovers and examines the variety of supply chain partnership configurations that exist based on differences in capability platforms, reflecting varying processes and information systems, and uses the absorptive capacity lens to build a conceptual framework that links these configurations with partner-enabled market knowledge creation.

TL;DR: This work identifies a set of capabilities — sensing the environment, learning, coordinating, and integrating — that help reconfigure existing operational capabilities into new ones that better match the environment and proposes a structural model where dynamic capabilities influence performance by reconfiguringexisting operational capabilities in the context of new product development (NPD).