Collaborate to Innovate: Utilizing Design Patterns Cards for Accelerating the Digital Transformation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Gerling C.; Bickel F.; Haskamp T.; Uebernickel F.


Abstract
As more and more organizations reach the limits of their internal capabilities to deal with the challenges induced by digital transformation, they are increasingly forced to seek external digitalization opportunities. In particular, small and medium enterprises are affected by this due to their limited human and financial resources. Currently, there is a lack of overview of options considering limited internal digital capabilities and resources. Thus, we choose an action design research approach to develop an external digitalization activity navigator. As a result, we derive five design principles for successful navigation and 30 activities, which are presented as design pattern cards. Our work can help practitioners and scholars alike to structure external digitalization activities.

Keywords
Design Patterns; Digital Transformation



Publication type
Research article in proceedings (conference)

Peer reviewed
No

Publication status
Published

Year
2022

Conference
55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022

Venue
Hawaii

Book title
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Editor
Bui, Tung

Start page
5335

End page
5344

Publisher
IEEE Computer Society

Place
Hawaii

Language
English

ISSN
1530-1605

ISBN
9780998133157

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