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Case study: awakening of an IT department

Most organizations are facing a multitude of challenges these days, including pressure on pricing and shorter lifecycles of new products. This requires organizations to become more flexible, focused on their core activities and enhance the capability to use new technologies to create or sustain a competitive advantage. When the IT department is too sheltered One of the companies busy transforming itself from a traditional, low IT density business model, to a highly digitalized business model is the company ‘Merchant’. It is a specialist in auctioning consumer products in high volumes (millions of items per day). To do so it has invested in an impressive amount of buildings which handle the inbound logistics, auction, outbound logistics and financial transaction. In the last decade both producers and buyers of the products are increasingly looking for ways to improve efficiency, including the role of Merchant to align demand and supply. As a result are producers and buyers looking