Organisations are facing increased competition in contemporary business environments. At the same time, cloud computing is a catalyst for new software applications and services available to organisations. Therefore, cloud computing is a viable option to provide innovation within the organisation. Therefore, organisations need to recognise the potential transformation of its business model, to take advantage of cloud computing. This research sets out to describe and explain the relationship between the various business strategy factors and CC. Organisations have to guard against using cloud-computing capabilities only to provide organisational efficiencies, as the efficiencies gained do not always translate into business value. Adopting cloud computing can cause disruptions in the organisation. Therefore, the organisation needs a strategy and understand the relationship between the business strategy and the cloud computing options available. The present study performs multi-method qualitative research, within the South African context. By taking a constructivist view, the researcher believes the knowledge will emerge from the interaction the people have with their environment. The research purpose states the research as descriptive and explanatory. Data collection for the present study performs face-to-face interviews. A general interview-guided approach ensures the research covers same areas of interest in all the interviews. For the data analysis, the researcher uses an inductive thematic analysis method. Software-as-a-Service influences the customer behaviour and forces organisations to re-evaluate their use of cloud computing. However, new cloud computing capabilities brought into the organisation need to provide a value proposition with an expected time-to-market. Also, large organisations require a technology architecture review to assess the impact on their infrastructure. The multi-faceted cost structure coupled with legacy systems and legacy investment products can prevent the adoption of cloud computing. Another factor is the vendor relationship and their influence regarding the solutions into which an organisation invests. The present study concludes how 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. Furthermore, information technology is a utility service. For these organisations, the information technology and business strategy align through the service-level method. This alignment method forces the information technology department to focus on maintaining a stable and reliable infrastructure. Cloud computing is only considered when contributing to the service-level. A misalignment then follows, and individual business units adopt cloud computing to fulfil their business need. As a result, the business unit is ready to adopt cloud computing while the information technology department is a hindrance towards adopting cloud computing. Software-as-a-Service solutions are the most used cloud computing option, based on its ability to offer an accelerated time-to-market for proof-of-concept products and services. However, most final business solutions move onto the internal infrastructure of the organisation. Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service are used to a lesser degree by organisations in this study.

Abstract Among these years, the economy of Taiwan has grown rapidly. It indirectly caused the quality and quantity of the crime to keep rising. For the safety reason, more and more people seek protection from private security company, and it caused the industry to grow rapidly. Under the condition of No Barrier of Entrance, more and more potential movers joined the industry. Facing such a significant changes, plus the units of the industry are mostly retired high rank officers and no scholars participated, it caused the price competition continue to be the most common strategy used between competitors. Some company even offended against the law, just to have the lowest primary cost. Some law-abiding companies, because of some factors, are not able to lower the primary cost. Instead, to operate normally, they started to make use of their own Competitive Advantage and planned a Competitive Strategy for a Fit Industrial Environment. However, in the present days, there are no studies about Security Industry. Therefore, my thesis is trying to analyze the reason that caused the industry press and to research the affects of Industrial Environment, Business Resources, and Competitive Strategy. Lastly, is to further understood how did the industry constructed their resources in such environment. This thesis used a qualitative way, using the results of interviews and information from other researches and the conclusion are as follow: 1. Threat of Potential Mover, Threat of Existence Competitor, and Negotiated Power of the Buyer are the main reasons that caused industry press in today¡¦s industry. 2. Private Security Guards, lacking quality and quantity, are the main reason for the Gap in the quality of the industry¡¦s service. 3. As regards of security industry, the investment of Technology Strategy, Distribution Strategy, and Value Activities are not obvious. 4. The services within the security industry are similar, and with a lot of competitors, using Differentiation Strategy has a remarkable connection. 5. If Upper Management, Consultant Team, Human Resource Management, Organization Culture, Organization Structure, Safety Service Program, and Service are the Strategic Resources of a security company, others have more possibilities using Differentiation Strategy. 6. When a security company had a Gap on the Strategic Resources, such as, Upper Management, Consultant Team, Human Resource Management, Organization Culture, Organization Structure, Safety Service Program, and Service, the company may build resources by using Resource Initiation and Accumulation. 7. When a security company has a good Organization Structure, they can create price elasticity and service combination using Product Line Strategy. 8. If the security company had a good Backup Support and emphasized Operational Strategies, for sure the company will do a better job.

Abstract Research on software business has, so far, mainly concentrated on the software industry. However, software business has recently also been practised outside the software industry, in so-called industrial companies. This research aims at increasing empirical and theoretical understanding of the development of software business in industrial companies, shedding light on why a company not belonging to the software industry starts to do business involving software, how the company goes about starting such business, and how this in turn affects the company. First, past research on the resource-based approach, capability approach, dynamic capability approach and the concept of strategy is reviewed. Based on this review, four processes that hold the potential to give a company (sustained) competitive advantage – picking resources, exploiting resources, applying capabilities and developing capabilities – and three important dimensions of strategy – the objective of strategy, the process of strategy formation, and the focus of strategy – are identified. A conceptual framework for studying the development of software business in industrial companies is developed which encompasses the processes holding the potential for (sustained) competitive advantage and the different dimensions of strategy, as well as the company’s resource, capability and dynamic capability base. Following that, empirical data collected in two internationally operating industrial companies is analyzed with the help of the conceptual framework. As a result of the empirical data analysis, 23 capabilities and several resources important for software business in industrial companies could be identified. Capabilities are categorized according to their use in and applicability to different types of software business. Factors influencing the application, development and improvement of capabilities, as well as different ways of how industrial companies start to do software business, are identified. The conceptual framework is revised by adding the process of developing capabilities further to the processes which hold the potential for competitive advantage, and clarifying the role of dynamic capabilities in the development of software business in industrial companies.

This master thesis looks at the use of business capabilities within enterprisearchitecture, and investigates how the concept is used within the Swedish pension managingcompany Folksam. Based on interviews with stakeholders an enterprise architecture metamodelcentred on the business capability is constructed. The meta-model is then edited andrevised according to a questionnaire aimed at removing irrelevant elements, and a secondset of interviews discussing a capability's health status and well being. This second set ofinterviews resulted in the removal of elements not aecting the well being of a capability.The nal meta-model has the business capability and the capability health status at itscore. It consists of the Capability element, with two attributes, surrounded by nine otherelements connected by eleven relations in total. / Detta examensarbete undersoker hur verksamhetsformagor anvandsinom enterprisearkitektur, och vidare hur formage-konceptet anvands pa det svenska pensionsforetaget Folksam. Baserat pa intervjuer med intressenter skapas en metamodell medverksamhetsformagan i centrum. Metamodellen revideras och andras sedan enligt ett frageformular vars mal var att ta bort ej relevanta element, och enligt en andra omgang intervjuerdar en formagas halsa diskuteras. Denna andra omgang intervjuer resulterade i att elementsom inte paverkade formagans halsa togs bort. Den slutgiltiga metamodellen har verksamhetsformagan och dess halsostatus i fokus. Den bestar av formage-elementet, med tvaattribut, omgardat av nio andra element som binds ihop av totalt elva olika relationer.