EC Strategy Generator: A Tool to Formulate a Firm's EC Strategy

Wiseman’s strategic option generator has been significant for its ability to identify a firm’s strategic information systems opportunities. Since the conceptualization of Wiseman’s tool fifteen years ago, information technology has undergone drastic transformation and new IS concepts have emerged. In the context of electronic commerce (EC), using the ECIS framework as our basis, Wiseman’s tool has been modified into EC strategy generator.

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