Value Creation from E-Business Models

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The e-sourcing opportunity: from projects and ASPs to value networks^*

Leslie P. Willcocks and Robert Plant

11.1 Introduction

A careful examination of the business internet strategies of 78 case study organizations, during the period 1999–2002, identified that rather than strategy formulation driving corporate success, it was in fact ‘strategy execution’ that separated leaders from laggards. The leading issues preventing agile behaviour amongst ‘bricks and mortar’ organizations during this period, were actually traditional inhibitors of superior performance, namely cultural and political issues as well as those stemming from large-scale business process re-engineering such as problems in the areas of skill set, process and technology integration ...