E-Business Strategy Session 6 - Implementation Strategy

Factors Involved in Success Strategy Implementation
· Implementation issues considered during strategy development
The issues are usually related to Human resource availability, the organization structural, Business process of the company, the existing system configuration, culture organization, the leadership of the project manager capabilities and partnership with vendors or supplier. Each entity affects the overall implementation success.
· Integration of IT planning and strategy with business strategy
Strategy implementation shall inline with Company strategy. Success implementation shall be sponsored by Company’s executives. Organization structure types considers they a company do the implementation.
· Enablers of and/or inhibitors to IS Strategy success
Vendors/suppliers part as enabler for the implementation positioned as important aspect. They can create innovation of implementation both technically and fulfillment infrastructure.
· Experienced Project Manager implementation
Project Manager is needed to be flexible, fast-moving, adaptive, results-oriented organizations as well as foster innovations and develop new intellectual capital investment.
· Implementation of any organizational strategy that is significantly impacted by IS
Department / Division directly impacted to the implementation shall be involved actively to the implementation success team. As a user of the implemented IS/IT services, they know exactly the business process and Project Manager shall socialize the steps implementation and the changes due to the implementation.
· Research, case studies, empirical studies of IS Strategy
Inputs from vendors/suppliers experiences can be useful for implementation reference.

The Challenges during the Implementation
Learn what support challenges users face after their new systems go live and some of the strategies users can incorporate into their support processes to get the most value out of there IS/IT services.
The challenges for online firm implementation are:
• Higher visibility to errors
Contingency plan for errors should be available for implementation online firms. Outage is not an option for online firms during the implementation.
• Lower switching costs
• Implementation shall deliver low cost for changing the vision for implementation. Never ending disputed implementation strategy shall result uncertainty.
• More dynamic competitive environment
• Competitiveness for online firms is high. Implementation strategy shall accommodate fast-moving implementation strategy.
• More fluid organizational boundaries
Flexible organizational structure offers dynamic project implementation strategy can smoothen the implementation.
• More complex linkage
• Business process shall be defined earlier to simplify the complexity of implementation. The more complex the implementation configuration the more time required for the implementation.