@article {Korachi2022619,
	title = {Towards a Smart City Approach: A Comparative Study},
	journal = {Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies},
	volume = {237},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {619-633},
	abstract = {There are conflicts and ambiguity regarding smart city strategies. Some works present smart city processes with vague and inconsistent steps. While others propose smart city elements and dimensions, rather than providing a clear and holistic approach. The most of smart city strategy works overlap one another, which creates ambiguity for smart city leaders. To fill this gap and reduce this ambiguity, the current paper presents and describes the main components of a smart city strategy framework, which are: strategic vision, action plan, and management strategy. To evaluate the relevance of these elements, the present paper conducts a comparative study. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.},
	keywords = {{\textquoteright}current, Action plan, Approach, Comparatives studies, Computer programming, Framework, Holistic approach, Management strategies, Smart city, Strategic vision, Strategy},
	doi = {10.1007/978-981-16-3637-0_44},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85116864583\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-981-16-3637-0_44\&partnerID=40\&md5=048c5bb0571b63d5ec7153286ae7a8bc},
	author = {Korachi, Z. and Bounabat, B.}
}
@article {Korachi2020493,
	title = {General approach for formulating a digital transformation strategy},
	journal = {Journal of Computer Science},
	volume = {16},
	number = {4},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 8},
	pages = {493-507},
	abstract = {To take advantage of information technologies, organizations need to define a clear strategy. Numerous works have provided definitions and phases of digital strategies. Some of these strategies are context-specific, while others deal with the common elements of digital strategies regardless of the digital transformation context. However, these works do not address a holistic approach. This raises ambiguity regarding digital strategy definitions and approaches. To eliminate this ambiguity, the current research tries to take advantage of existing digital strategies to propose a general digital strategy definition and build a general digital transformation approach. This work analyses various digital transformation strategies, to extract and classify their common elements in order to build a general approach that frame and drive the formulation of digital transformation strategies. To define such a general approach, the current paper analyses the effects of IT Governance and Management Strategy on the Digital Transformation Maturity. This analysis identified how IT Governance and Management Strategy can contribute to formulating a digital transformation strategy. Partial Least Square (PLS) was adopted in this research to develop an empirical evaluation for the case of 30 digital strategies and frameworks. Based on this empirical study several results have been presented in this work, namely: determination of a digital strategy definition and identification of a digital strategy approach. The proposed approach is composed of the following building blocks: Strategic Awareness, Business Strategic Planning, IT Organizational Structure, Steering committee, IT Prioritization Process, IT Investment Decisions, IT Strategic Planning, IT Budgeting, IT Reporting, IT Reaction Capacity and Management Strategy. {\textcopyright} 2020 Korachi Zineb and Bounabat Bouchaib.},
	doi = {10.3844/JCSSP.2020.493.507},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85089215075\&doi=10.3844\%2fJCSSP.2020.493.507\&partnerID=40\&md5=f078fe7456a6e96038b70d205dddec3f},
	author = {Korachi, Z. and Bounabat, B.}
}
@article {Korachi20201451,
	title = {Towards a Frame of Reference for Smart City Strategy Development and Governance},
	journal = {Journal of Computer Science},
	volume = {16},
	number = {10},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 6},
	pages = {1451-1464},
	abstract = {Despite the importance of the smart city concept, few works address how to define and implement smart cities in a clear manner. Furthermore, the smart city literature provides heterogeneous studies and solutions; this heterogeneity creates misunderstanding regarding the smart city definition and strategy. Moreover, stakeholders have multiple and conflicting interests and concerns, which also increase the ambiguity regarding the smart city concept and approach. To meet this challenge and fill this gap, a smart city frame of reference is needed to frame and guide smart city strategy formulation and implementation. In this perspective, the current research conducts a quantitative analysis of various smart city frameworks and strategies, in order to find and demonstrate the common building blocks of a smart city framework. Based on the quantitative analysis, this work proposes a clear and integrative smart city framework. This framework aims to reduce the misunderstanding and ambiguity regarding smart city definitions and strategies by providing a standard smart city approach that fits all smart city contexts. To this effect, the proposed framework considers all smart city concerns and it is composed of the following blocks: Strategic awareness, business strategic planning, IT investment decisions, IT organizational structure, steering committee, IT prioritization process, IT strategic planning, IT budgeting, marketing plan, IT reaction capacity, IT reporting and management strategy. {\textcopyright} 2020 {\textcopyright} 2020 Zineb Korachi and Bouchaib Bounabat. This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 3.0 license.},
	doi = {10.3844/jcssp.2020.1451.1464},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096687902\&doi=10.3844\%2fjcssp.2020.1451.1464\&partnerID=40\&md5=1a2829e1b8a6f1c4649b6a4f071f30b9},
	author = {Korachi, Z. and Bounabat, B.}
}
@article {Korachi2020456,
	title = {Towards a Maturity Model for Digital Strategy Assessment},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {1105 AISC},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 7},
	pages = {456-470},
	abstract = {Information Technologies (ITs) lead to creativity and innovation in education, business, and management. Creativity and innovation improve the growth and profitability of organizations and the quality of their products and services. Many of today{\textquoteright}s social, business, economic and political problems can be solved using ITs. To take advantage of the digital revolution, there is a need for having a digital strategy and evaluation system of the digital transformation. Many works show that the strategic alignment between business and ITs is the key element for successful digital projects. This work presents a Maturity Model for Digital Strategy Assessment (MMDSA). MMDSA has been introduced as a guide and reference framework for digital transformation management within different industries and sectors. Its objective is to master and improve digital transformation processes and consequently to control the quality of the products and services resulting from these processes. The proposed model allows assessing IT-businesses alignment, helps organizations to determine where they stand in terms of their digital transformation and provides strategic components and guidelines to help organizations to move up from the current maturity level to the next one. The paper illustrates a software solution allowing to create customized maturity models to assess digital strategy progress and evaluate the business value of the digital transformation. {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {Digital strategies, Digital transformation, Growth and profitability, Innovation in educations, Intelligent systems, maturity model, planning, Products and services, Quality control, Reference frameworks, Strategic alignment, Sustainable development},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-36674-2_47},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85080925319\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-36674-2_47\&partnerID=40\&md5=7980842dc0e1d8c42164d36d653172cd},
	author = {Korachi, Z. and Bounabat, B.}
}
@conference {Korachi2018140,
	title = {Data driven maturity model for assessing smart cities},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {140-147},
	doi = {10.1145/3289100.3289123},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85058660258\&doi=10.1145\%2f3289100.3289123\&partnerID=40\&md5=8908e2ab946a4871a6ec1101872def02},
	author = {Korachi, Z. and Bounabat, B.}
}
