Business Innovation and ICT Strategies

• Main Authors: Birudavolu, Sriram (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Nag, Biswajit (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Management.; Industrial management.; Information technology.; Business-Data processing.; Management information systems.; Computer science.; Leadership.; Innovation/Technology Management.; IT in Business.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

 This book investigates the real process of unleashing the power of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) through Open Innovation and strategic choices. It covers the most important aspects of ICT in a nutshell and details the road to the future through business innovation. ICT, of which telecom and IT constitute the core, is currently permeating and transforming every sphere of life, ranging from commerce, manufacturing, education and healthcare, to agriculture, banking, governance, media and entertainment. Today, telecommunication and ICT, in general, are essential to a country's economic development and competitiveness as recognized both by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Due to the powerful, disruptive and rapid forces unleashed by ICT tsunami, organisations not only struggle to harness the potential of ICT but can also be overwhelmed by the changes, complexity, competition and regulatory environment it brings up. This book provides a clue to organisations on how to sustain and succeed by leveraging ICT in absence of extensive in-house expertise across the breadth and depth of these areas. The driving theme of the book is about opening up organizational and business models, by presenting an integrated roadmap to a future with ICT, by co-opting, cooperating and competing with other organisations. Constructing the right strategy and building the necessary social capital for open innovation through collaboration with partners, government, academia and users (Quadruple Helix Model) are essential steps in such a process. 

 1. Introduction -- 2. The ICT Tsunami and Your Future -- PART 1: The ICT Play in an Organization -- 3. Every Organization is a Complex ICT System -- 4. The Technology and Enterprise Landscape -- PART 2: Heart of the Matter -- 5. Finding Business Focus with ICT -- 6. Strategies to Retain Focus -- PART 3: An Integrated ICT Innovation Framework -- 7. Winning the Competition -- 8. The Innovation Strategy -- 9. The Innovation Social Capital -- PART 4: Lay of the Land -- 10. Regional Factors -- 11. Riding the Changes -- PART 5: The Indian ICT Ecosystem -- 12. The State of the Indian ICT Sector -- 13. India's Regulatory structure and interplay of different Agencies -- 14. Indian ICT : Changing Structures and Catching Up -- PART 6: Shaping Your Future -- 15. Finding Your Unique Strategy -- 16. Keys to a Prosperous Future.