The corrosion of IT advantage: strategy makes a comeback

Journal of Business Strategy

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 10-15

  Carr, Nicholas G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Corporate strategy; Technology led strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992979909     PISSN: 02756668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02756660410699838     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. “Competition of locomotive carriages on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway”, Mechanics Magazine, 17 October 1829.
2. Porter, M.E. (1985), Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, Free Press, New York, NY, p. 164.
3. Cotteleer, M. (2002), “An empirical study of operational performance convergence following enterprise IT implementation”, working paper, Harvard Business School, October.
4. Gates, B. (1996), The Road Ahead, 2nd ed., Penguin, New York, NY, pp. 180-1.
5. Porter, M.E. (2001), “Strategy and the Internet”, Harvard Business Review, March, p. 66.
6. Madan, R., Sorenson, C. and Scott, S.V. (2003), “ ‘Strategy sort of died around April of last Year for a lot of us’: CIO perceptions on ICT value and strategy in the UK financial sector”, paper presented at the 11th European Conference on Information Systems, Naples, Italy, 19-21 June, p. 10.
7. Quoted in Schrage, M. (2002), “Wal-Mart trumps Moore's law”, Technology Review, March, p. 21.
8. Joan Magretta, with Nan Stone, What Management is: How it Works and Why it's Everyone's Business, Free Press, New York, 2002), p. 62. Magretta's book provides an excellent overview of the development of both Dell's and Wal-Mart's strategies, which I have drawn on in my own discussion of these companies.