Akbar Zahediyan Nezhad; Mashallah Valikhani; Alireza Shirvani Jouzdani
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to design a model for evaluating digital innovation and transformation in startup business models.Method: The methodology of this reseatch is descriptive-exploratory and employs a qualitative approach. The thematic analysis was employed to study digital innovation ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to design a model for evaluating digital innovation and transformation in startup business models.Method: The methodology of this reseatch is descriptive-exploratory and employs a qualitative approach. The thematic analysis was employed to study digital innovation and transformation in startup business models. The participants in this research were academic and industrial experts with a background in research and executive work in lean startups. Initially, a purposive sampling method was used to select the samples, and this was later extended using the snowball method. Ultimately, the researcher conducted 14 expert interviews to collect data. The data obtained from the interviews were reviewed and analyzed using coding based on theme analysis. Initially, codes were extracted from the text of the interviews. These codes were aggregated into more general codes, which were further studied and integrated into components. From these components, relevant dimensions were proposed, leading to the presentation of a model based on these dimensions and extracted components.Findings: The results indicate that the digital Innovation and transformation evaluation model for startup business models includes six main dimensions and 19 sub-themes. The proposed model consists of the following dimensions: "monitoring and analysis of market needs" with three components, "evaluation of product development costs" with three components, "digital innovation and transformation in the business model" with four components, "coordination and integration inside and outside the organization" with two components, "evaluation of learning ability and absorption of organizational knowledge" with three components, and "organizational resources and capacities" with four components.Conclusion: Based on the research findings, it is suggested that managers in the technology field understand the importance of lean startups. The indicators in the proposed model may be considered to help prepare and empower startups to improve their products and services. Each proposed dimension can be seen as a management skill necessary for the success of lean startups. Managers may create the appropriate conditions to integrate all of company capabilities.
Ahmad Shamsi; Alireza Shirvani; Mashallah Valikani
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Purpose: In the present research the relationship between the dimensions of mental image, brand awareness and brand recognition in attracting customers, has been investigated and analyzed with marketing of electronic services (the case study of Iran Postbank) especially taken ...
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Purpose: In the present research the relationship between the dimensions of mental image, brand awareness and brand recognition in attracting customers, has been investigated and analyzed with marketing of electronic services (the case study of Iran Postbank) especially taken into account. E-marketing has greatly facilitated the banking operation.Method: This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey and correlational as regards the nature of data collection. The statistical population of the research includes managers and senior supervisors of Iran Postbank. The sample size of the research is 168 people, and simple sampling method was used, and 117 people were selected for the research. A questionnaire was used to collect data. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed through content validity and its reliability using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. To analyze the data, structural equation modeling was used with the help of PLS software.Findings: The results of this research showed that the variables of mental image, brand awareness and brand recognition have a significant and positive impact on the marketing of electronic services, also the marketing of services has a positive and significant impact on customer attraction and the marketing of electronic banking services will increase customer attraction.Conclusion: Given the increasing competition among Iranian banks and the challenge of attracting new customers and keeping current customers, as discussed in this research, brand awareness is one of the most important factors affecting customer attraction in the bank.
Fazel Zamani; Mashallah Valikhani; Alireza Shirvani
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to improve the organizational adequacy model for the digital maturity of Iranian offices with a data-based approach.Methodology: This research was conducted with a qualitative-inductive approach and the Strauss-Corbin contextual theory method. The research tool (data ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to improve the organizational adequacy model for the digital maturity of Iranian offices with a data-based approach.Methodology: This research was conducted with a qualitative-inductive approach and the Strauss-Corbin contextual theory method. The research tool (data collection) was a semi-structured interview, which means that by analyzing qualitative data, it identifies the unknown aspects of the research variables. Using the grounded theory method, the data obtained from interviews with 10 elites and qualified specialists of the Telecommunication Organization were analyzed in three stages of open, axial and selective coding.Results: 14 general categories were presented in the form of a paradigm model that these factors include causal conditions (law and regulations, organizational culture, organizational structure, need for organizational adequacy, customer relationship management) central phenomenon (promotion of organizational adequacy in the Iranian administrative system), underlying conditions (Organizational development method), intervening conditions (effectiveness of human resources, organizational principles, and criteria, organizational adequacy thinking) and strategies (growth and development of administrative culture, development of basic criteria of organizational adequacy, organizational excellence strategy) and consequences (achievement of organizational goals, achievement of master goals Reference).Conclusion: Human resources are most valuable factor of production and most important capital and main source of competitive advantage and the creation of basic capabilities and real estate wealth in the areas of talent recognition, monitoring of any organization is considered, so performance capital It is necessary to improve it. Telecommunication organization with knowledge developments can continuously improve organizational adequacy to achieve digital maturity.
