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Safrudin, Norizan and Recker, Jan C. ORCID: 0000-0002-2072-5792 (2012). A typology for business transformations (research in progress). In: ACIS 2012 : Location, location, location : Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Geelong, Australia, 4-5 Dec., 2012, Association for Information Systems.

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Abstract

The term "business transformation" is a buzzword, often used to signify fundamental changes undergone by organisations. Despite numerous works in enterprise transformation, IT-enabled business transformation and organizational transformation, there appears to be a lack of consensus on what actually constitutes a business transformation as opposed to other types of redesign or organisational improvement projects. Consequently, knowledge about which elements of a business system that are impacted by such an endeavour is largely inconsistent, and partially conflicting. We present a business transformation typology that considers 18 attributes pertaining to the transforming organisation and the transformation initiative. To explore our typology, we analysed 10 published case studies and classified them along two dimensions — one ranging from marginal to fundamental changes, and another on internal and external visibility. Our literature review reveals how the terminology has been misused, and we provide some directions to provide more clarity around transformation phenomena in IS research.

Item Type:	Book Section, Proceedings Item or annotation in a legal commentary
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Safrudin, Norizan UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Recker, Jan C. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2072-5792
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-88818
Publisher:	Association for Information Systems
Subjects:	Data processing Computer science Management and auxiliary services
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Business Transformation English Business Transformation Management English Typology English IT-Enabled Change English Construct Definition English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Weitere Institute, Arbeits- und Forschungsgruppen > Cologne Institute for Information Systems (CIIS)
Language:	English
Date:	December 2012
Refereed:	Yes
Title of Book:	ACIS 2012 : Location, location, location : Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Geelong, Australia, 4-5 Dec., 2012
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/8881