UFIDA (F)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Guo Jia

Format:Print
| Language:English

Abstract

As an extension of UFIDA (A-E), UFIDA (F) using early 2012 as the time node, looks at UFIDA's major steps taken during 2010-2011, accomplishments, and major future opportunities and challenges. The case focuses on the new market development of Cloud Computing and the Management Software Industry. Cloud computing provides both strategic opportunities and poses tremendous challenges. It combined a technology revolution with necessary change in business models. In its movement to embrace cloud computing, the company had adopted a strategy of actively embracing transformation, and boosting core competiveness through efficiency-based high-growth. Today, UFIDA's core strategy has shifted from being the leading accounting software vendor in China to becoming the largest management software vendor in Asia and eventually a world-class cloud service provider.