TY - GEN
T1 - Capability leapfrogging in the Japanese IT services industry
AU - Tsuji, Hiroshi
AU - Sakurai, Akito
AU - Tiwana, Amrit
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The focal question that we address is about how firms transition their IT product capabilities to the IT services capabilities. In particular, we were interested in exploring the unexpected observation that some incumbent firms in the Japanese IT industry were able to leapfrog capability development for transitioning to the IT services model, while others struggled to do so. We use a multi-method approach consisting of four complementary stages for addressing the research question: (a) multiple case studies in eleven leading Japanese IT firms, (b) a large scale survey of division managers in 208 firms in Japan, (c) quantitative sequence analysis of archival product development logs for over 1,800 IT products in 208 Japanese firms during the ongoing transition, and (d) a Monte Carlo simulation of a subset of the insights obtained in the preceding stages.
AB - The focal question that we address is about how firms transition their IT product capabilities to the IT services capabilities. In particular, we were interested in exploring the unexpected observation that some incumbent firms in the Japanese IT industry were able to leapfrog capability development for transitioning to the IT services model, while others struggled to do so. We use a multi-method approach consisting of four complementary stages for addressing the research question: (a) multiple case studies in eleven leading Japanese IT firms, (b) a large scale survey of division managers in 208 firms in Japan, (c) quantitative sequence analysis of archival product development logs for over 1,800 IT products in 208 Japanese firms during the ongoing transition, and (d) a Monte Carlo simulation of a subset of the insights obtained in the preceding stages.
KW - Capabilities
KW - Competitive strategy
KW - Qualitative research
KW - Real Time Enterprise (RTE) capabilities
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84886485997
SN - 9781627486040
T3 - International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012
SP - 3523
EP - 3528
BT - International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012
T2 - International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012
Y2 - 16 December 2012 through 19 December 2012
ER -