Changing The Installed Base: Exploring IT Integration Challenges In The Process Industry

Topics:
Information Technology Strategy
Tags:
Industry,
Information Technology,
Integration,
IT Infrastructure,
Management,
Strategy
Source:
Umea University

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Overview: The purpose of this paper is to identify and explore critical challenges for the process industry in IT infrastructure integration and adaptation. We identify four critical challenges in the integration and adaption of IT infrastructure in the process industry: integration as an ongoing process; maintaining stability in the installed base; locking the right stuff in; and balancing user value, continuity of production and compatibility. Given the centrality of IT infrastructure in process industries the importance of dealing with these challenges must be emphasized. The four challenges identified in this study are of such a complexity they can only lend themselves to the evolutionary strategy. Such a strategy is in concert with the sensibility towards risk we find in the paper industry.

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Format: PDF | Size: 466KB | Date: Jun 2006 | Pages: 15

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