The information system as a competitive weapon
Communications of the ACM - Special section on management of information systems
The WyCash portfolio management system
OOPSLA '92 Addendum to the proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications (Addendum)
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
The structure and value of modularity in software design
Proceedings of the 8th European software engineering conference held jointly with 9th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity Volume 1
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity Volume 1
Clockspeed and Informational Response: Evidence From the Information Technology Industry
Information Systems Research
Shifting Innovation to Users via Toolkits
Management Science
Modularity Analysis of Logical Design Models
ASE '06 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
WICSA '08 Proceedings of the Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008)
Issues and Opinions---Information Technologies in Business: A Blueprint for Education and Research
Information Systems Research
Information Systems Research
Managing technical debt in software-reliant systems
Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research
Information Systems Research
Research Commentary---Seeking the Configurations of Digital Ecodynamics: It Takes Three to Tango
Information Systems Research
An empirical model of technical debt and interest
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Managing Technical Debt
A portfolio approach to technical debt management
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Managing Technical Debt
Competitive information systems in support of pricing
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As information technology becomes integral to the products and services in a growing range of industries, there has been a corresponding surge of interest in understanding how firms can effectively formulate and execute digital business strategies. This fusion of IT within the business environment gives rise to a strategic tension between investing in digital artifacts for long-term value creation and exploiting them for short-term value appropriation. Further, relentless innovation and competitive pressures dictate that firms continually adapt these artifacts to changing market and technological conditions, but sustained profitability requires scalable architectures that can serve a large customer base and stable interfaces that support integration across a diverse ecosystem of complementary offerings. The study of digital business strategy needs new concepts and methods to examine how these forces are managed in pursuit of competitive advantage. We conceptualize the logic of digital business strategy in terms of two constructs: design capital (i.e., the cumulative stock of designs owned or controlled by a firm) and design moves (i.e., the discrete strategic actions that enlarge, reduce, or modify a firm's stock of designs). We also identify two salient dimensions of design capital, namely, option value and technical debt. Using embedded case studies of four firms, we develop a rich conceptual model and testable propositions to lay out a design-based logic of digital business strategy. This logic highlights the interplay between design moves and design capital in the context of digital business strategy and contributes to a growing body of insights that link the design of digital artifacts to competitive strategy and firm-level performance.