Competitive Digital Innovation

Innovative digital technologies are forcing companies to rethink how they compete. The focus of digital innovation in business has shifted from internal transformation within firms to their market interface and ecosystems. While opportunities for innovation in internal operations are well established, it’s less clear how to leverage technology at the market interface. This often has strategic implications, and the goal of this book is help you connect digital innovation to business strategy.

By understanding how to leverage digital technologies, you can redefine your market-facing business processes, your products, services and even your business models and stay competitive in today’s hybrid markets. This book provides a coherent and comprehensive approach to not just survive but rather thrive in the 21st Century global marketplace.        

With global, real-world examples and original frameworks, this is an ideal bookfor executives and anyone who wants to understand digital strategy. Highly practical but infused with rigorous research, it shows you how your business can use digital technologies to compete in today’s hybrid markets.

​ Amit Basu holds the Carr P. Collins Chair in MIS and is a Professor at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, USA. He has also been on the faculty of Vanderbilt University and the University of Maryland, USA. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of knowledge and database systems, decision support systems, digital strategy, electronic commerce and workflow management. He has also been a consultant and advisor to a number of private and public sector organizations, both in the USA and Western Europe, and was the President of the INFORMS Information Systems Society from 2012-14. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, his M.B.A. from Southern Illinois University, and his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi.

Steve Muylle is Partner and Full Professor at Vlerick Business School and Ghent University, Belgium. His research interests are in the areas of digital strategy, electronic commerce and business-to-business marketing. Through his research and teaching, he has worked with many companies across the world, from large multinationals to start-ups and scale-ups on various projects involving digital strategy, marketing, supply management, and innovation. He also serves as an Independent Director on Corporate Boards. He received his Ph.D. and a degree in business engineering from Solvay Management School, Belgium, and a doctoral fellowship award from the Intercollegiate Center for Management Science, Belgium. He was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University.