Digital Business Innovation and Strategy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 10058
Special Issue Editor
Interests: business strategy; project management; complex problem-solving; business impact and knowledge management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The business world is rapidly progressing into a new era, in which the prevalence of a common purpose is the key criterion for ecosystems when passing judgment on an organisation. Stakeholders have become increasingly demanding and fully alert to such matters as the quality of the interaction with an organisation, valuing their experience and expectations, whilst assessing organisational conduct and behaviour.
The pandemic has greatly accelerated the advent of Industry 4.0. Business models have sought to strengthen their technological dimension, supply chains have been restructured, and education and academia have needed to reinvent themselves fully. Many companies and businesses were forced to diverge from their incumbent strategies to more innovative ones, adapting to a new reality in order to survive. It has become abundantly clear that the only truly sustainable competitive advantage for an organization lies in its capacity to reinvent itself and replace incumbent paradigms with better business models, ones that best fit a dynamic and constantly changing macroenvironment.
It is also key to emphasize the role of technology and its omnipresence across all types of businesses, rendering the notion of business reinvention meaningless without the inclusion of a technological paradigm shift. Digital transformation has majorly impacted the way brands operate and manifest themselves next to key constituencies and, most remarkably, consumers. It is rather cumbersome to conceive of the idea of selling products or providing services, short of technology being present at some stage of the journey. In particular, the use of platforms or sales systems has become almost a requirement for those who want to explore the online market. In recent years, e-commerce and e-marketplaces have become the primary means for purchasing products and services, but this was nothing compared to the magnitude of what we are witnessing today.
People want to be surprised, they want new and different things, and they want them now. They seek ease of access and simplification of their daily tasks and routines. Perhaps it is not the product or the service that should be changed, but the way in which the user/consumer experience utilizes the product or service.
It is important to note that company lifecycles have never been shorter, as a consequence of a context of V.U.C.A (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity), so a permanent transformation of the business model is a mandatory principle for survival. Digital business strategy and innovation are thus mandatory for the creation of a sustainable competitive advantage.
We welcome original research articles and reviews for the current Special Issue. Research articles may include (but are not limited to) the following areas:
- Strategic management;
- Innovation management;
- Digital business;
- Business model;
- Open innovation;
- Business sustainability;
- Project management;
- Problem-solving;
- Knowledge management;
- Benefits realization management.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Leandro Ferreira Pereira
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- digital business
- digital strategy
- digital innovation
- business model innovation
- business strategy
- sustainability
