Sustained competitive advantage using business entities (SCUBE): A practical approach for business agility

Matteo Della Bordella; Rong Liu; Aurelio Ravarini; Frederick Y. Wu; Anil Nigam

doi:10.1007/978-3-7908-2789-7_2

Sustained competitive advantage using business entities (SCUBE): A practical approach for business agility

Matteo Della Bordella, Rong Liu, Aurelio Ravarini, Frederick Y. Wu, Anil Nigam

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Enterprises competing in today's highly dynamic business environment aim at achieving Sustained Competitive Advantage (SCA) as defined by Barney. In this paper, we present an operational method and the protocol for its application for realizing SCA through Business Entity analysis. Business entity-centric modeling has been a successful approach in rethinking and revolutionizing business operations, in a number of engagements. Our method provides a path from SCAgenerating strategies to Business Operations and Business Entities. Our approach leverages key constructs from OMG's Business Motivation Model (BMM) and emphasizes the analysis of Influencers - factors that have the capability to impact an enterprise's strategies that generate SCA. Further, these strategies are used to formulate Business Operations that can be defined by Business Entities. IT applications can be generated from the Business Entities using Model-Driven Architecture. Therefore, these discovered Business Entities actually provide a valid scope for innovating Business Operations and developing IT applications that result in SCA for the business.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Crossroads for Organization, Management, Accounting and Engineering: ItAIS: The Italian Association for Information Systems
Pages	11-18
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9783790827897
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2789-7_2
State	Published - 1 Jan 2012

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Bordella, M. D., Liu, R., Ravarini, A., Wu, F. Y., & Nigam, A. (2012). Sustained competitive advantage using business entities (SCUBE): A practical approach for business agility. In Information Systems: Crossroads for Organization, Management, Accounting and Engineering: ItAIS: The Italian Association for Information Systems (pp. 11-18) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2789-7_2

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Sustained competitive advantage using business entities (SCUBE): A practical approach for business agility. / Bordella, Matteo Della; Liu, Rong; Ravarini, Aurelio et al.
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