How Information Systems Enable Digital Transformation: A Focus on Business Models and Value Co‐Production

Marie-Hélène Delmond (), Alain Keravel (), Fabien Coelho () and Robert Mahl ()

No 1161, HEC Research Papers Series from HEC Paris

Abstract: The digital economy has now a widespread impact on the whole economy and leads companies to transform and adopt new competition rules. Our objectives in this paper are: 1) to analyze these evolutions and, 2) to understand the role of informations systems in these changes. We have investigated two opposite environments: a pure Internet player selling an SaaS offering, and a traditional business that distributes products through a physical network of thousands of outlets. Our results show that both Internet players and traditional companies experience changes in the industry value chain, a growing importance of services, and develop new business models focused on an extended value proposition and cooperation with customers. The role of information systems is characterized by the evolution of the IT infrastructure, the expansion of inter organizational information systems and digital platforms and the development of new IT capabilities.

Keywords: Information systems; Digital economy; Business models; Value proposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2016-01-01
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