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Strategic e-business framework: a holistic approach for organisations in the construction industry
journal contribution
posted on 2013-09-25, 14:10 authored by Yongjie Chen, Kirti RuikarKirti Ruikar, Patricia CarrilloPatricia CarrilloStrategic consideration and actions are crucial for organisations in the construction industry to
implement e-business successfully and have continuous improvement. However, only focusing on one concept is
not sufficient for construction companies to formulate their e-business strategy because of the fragmented needs
and requirements within the organisations. To address the industry’s specific needs and requirements, an ebusiness
strategy should include multiple elements rather than one element, and collaboration of partners
should lie at the heart of the e-business strategy. Also, the strategic approaches currently available for ebusiness
implementation are mainly ‘reactive’ and lack a long-term consideration or vision. To improve ebusiness
implementation, it is important for organisations in the industry to create a positive organisational
culture and consider both the emergent and long-term needs across organisation boundaries. This paper
presents a Strategic e-Business Framework for organisations in the construction industry. The Framework
provides a holistic approach for e-business strategy formulation and implementation. Organisations in the
industry can work out a comprehension business solution for their e-business implementation using the
Framework. The recommendations are also presented to illustrate how the Framework can benefit organisations
in the construction industry potentially.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Citation
CHEN, Y., RUIKAR, K.D., CARRILLO, P.M., 2013. Strategic e-business framework: a holistic approach for organisations in the construction industry. ITcon, 18, pp.306-320.Publisher
ITCon (© the authors)Version
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publication date
2013Notes
© 2013 The authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 unported (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.ISSN
1874-4753Publisher version
Language
- en