Keywords
Best-worst method
IT industry
strategy implementation
Abstract
The paper was conducted to identify and rank the barriers to strategy implementation of Vietnamese IT businesses, using a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making method (MCDM) called Best-Worst Method (BWM). The BWM helps determine the weights (importance) of the strategy implementation barriers, thereby proposing solutions to overcome these barriers. The results have shown that there are 6 main groups of barriers and 20 sub-barriers that affect the strategy implementation of Vietnamese IT enterprises and are sorted according to the importance level and need to be addressed first. Finally, the author also proposes solutions to overcome the barriers to strategy implementation, providing administrators in IT businesses to improve the efficiency of strategy implementation.
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