Getting a clean shot on a blurred target : Improving targeting for Strategic Scanning through action research in 10 French organizations
| Autor: | Marie Laurence Caron-Fasan, Edison Loza Aguirre, Nicolas Lesca, Hatem Haddad |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion (CERAG), Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Engineering
business.industry 05 social sciences Engineering management Shot (pellet) 0502 economics and business [SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration 050211 marketing Computer vision Artificial intelligence Action research business 050203 business & management Information Systems |
| Zdroj: | Communications of the Association for Information Systems Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Association for Information Systems, 2016, 39, pp.615-638. ⟨10.17705/1CAIS.03927⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1529-3181 |
| DOI: | 10.17705/1CAIS.03927⟩ |
| Popis: | International audience; Targeting comprises defining the part of the business environment that corresponds to organizations’ strategic objectives and priorities. Targeting is not an easy process because it includes the interaction of managers who come from different organizational units that might have a fragmentary and blurred understanding of the overall issue. Through an action research, we designed and evaluated a GSS to help managers target strategic scanning in fuzzy contexts. Evaluations through interventions in 10 French organizations allowed both participants to achieve relevant targets and researchers to propose four major improvements to targeting activities: 1) use suggested lists of actors and topics as starting points to trigger and facilitate discussions, 2) define actor and topic importance to produce useful targeting results, 3) evaluate the organization’s perceived capacity to be informed early enough, and 4) define a mechanism to signal scanning relevancy in the short, mid-, or long term. From a management perspective, our results help managers in their strategic scanning activity by 1) identifying information needs for strategically scanning fuzzy subjects, 2) reducing risk of strategic scanning failure, 3) enabling organizations to assess their scanning capabilities, 4) identifying scanning priorities according to a temporal horizon, and 5) fostering teamwork participation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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