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Examination of Charles Schwab's Business and IS/IT Strategy Alingment
2009/// Filed in: Management IS
The alignment and execution of Charles Schwab's (Schwab) business and information systems/information technology (IS/IT) strategies have made the firm a leading discount brokerage firm targeted at individual investors. Schwab is now the industry leader discount investment brokerage firm in terms of market capitalization (17.59B) and return on equity (ttm, 31.57%). In the following blog posts we analyze Schwab's IS/IT strategy using Porter's competitive forces (Porter.79,Porter.85, Porter.01) and the resource-based view (RBV) of strategy frameworks (Barney.91,Bharadwaj.00). Finally, we address the question of whether Schwab's success is sustainable (Carr.03,Brown.03) and introduce Hax's Delta Model (Hax.03) to facilitate this analysis.
Examination of Charles Schwab's Business and IS/IT Strategy
2009/// Filed in: Management IS
The next series of blog post examine the relationship between Charles Schwab’s business and information systems/information technology (IS/IT) strategy. We analyze Schwab’s IS/IT strategy using Porter’s competitive forces and the resource-based view of strategy frameworks. Finally, we address the question of whether Schwab’s success is sustainable using current frameworks including Hax’s Delta Model.