Understanding Business Strategy Factors that Support or Impede Moving Business Capabilities to a Cloud Environment in the Investment Services Industry

15 pages•Published: October 25, 2019

Abstract

This research investigates how the business strategy factors for South African organizations either support or impede moving business capabilities to a Cloud Computing (CC) environment. In particular, the research considers larger organizations within the investment services industry. By performing a qualitative study the research investigates the various business and Information Technology (IT) strategies. The various CC options are then explored to draw a correlation between the business strategy factors and CC. It concludes that cloud computing offers no competitive differentiation for South African investment services organisations. For these organisations, their existing business models remains profitable. Business strategy, therefore, has no compelling reason to consider cloud computing. South African investment services organizations align with their business strategies through the service-level method, which cause the IT departments to focus on stability and reliability.

Keyphrases: business capabilities, business strategy, cloud computing, financial services, investment industry

In: Kennedy Njenga (editor). Proceedings of 4th International Conference on the Internet, Cyber Security and Information Systems 2019, vol 12, pages 57-71.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/vXRl
	https://doi.org/10.29007/9gjv

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{ICICIS2019:Understanding_Business_Strategy_Factors,
  author    = {Faghmie Davids and Jean-Paul Van Belle},
  title     = {Understanding Business Strategy Factors that Support or Impede Moving Business Capabilities to a Cloud Environment in the Investment Services Industry},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 4th  International Conference on the Internet, Cyber Security and Information Systems 2019},
  editor    = {Kennedy Njenga},
  series    = {Kalpa Publications in Computing},
  volume    = {12},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2515-1762},
  url       = {/publications/paper/vXRl},
  doi       = {10.29007/9gjv},
  pages     = {57-71},
  year      = {2019}}

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