Overview

This book addresses issues related to business agility and the diffusion of Information Technology (IT). Success, even survival, in today's business environment has been made complex and difficult by technologically-based competitive pressure. One promising strategy is to be agile and ready to adapt quickly to changes in the environment or market. Such strategy takes shape as an agile software development, agile manufacturing, agile modeling and agile iterations. In contrast, successful IT diffusion is known to be a process that takes time and careful effort. Many IT projects that succeeded in developing a product have subsequently failed in changing the behavior of the target group when diffusion just didn't happen. Therefore this volume responds to the question: What is the relationship between agility and IT diffusion? The book's scope covers information systems and technology issues, as well as organizational and managerial issues, related to agility and IT diffusion. The planned perspectives include topics such as diffusion of agile methods, enabling business agility with IT, creating agile environments that facilitate diffusion of IT, theories and frameworks for understanding diffusion and agility issues, best practices relating to business agility and IT diffusion, software process improvement and agility, diffusion studies of specific agile technologies, and impacts of diffusion of IT agile methods.

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Author:   Richard Baskerville ,  Lars Mathiassen ,  Jan Pries-Heje ,  Janice I. DeGross
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Volume:   180
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.599kg
ISBN:  

9781441938107

ISBN 10:   1441938109
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   08 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Why Agility Now?.- Agility in Fours: IT Diffusion, IT Infrastructures, IT Development, and Business.- Information Technology Diffusion Research: An Interim Balance.- Agility in Information Systems Development: A Three-Tiered Framework.- Agile IT Diffusion.- Navigating Software Process Improvement Projects.- Mapping Social Networks in Software Process Improvement: An Action Research Study.- Organizational Information System Adoption: A Network Perspective.- Crossing the Chasm in Software Process Improvement.- Fooling Around: The Corporate Jester as an Effective Change Agent for Technological Innovation.- IT Infrastructures Agility.- An Empirical Investigation of the Potential of RFID Technology to Enhance Supply Chain Agility.- Difficulties in Implementing the Agile Supply Chain: Lessons Learned from Interorganizational Information Systems Adoption.- Agility Through Implementation: A Case from a Global Supply Chain.- Agile Development.- A Study of the Use of Agile Methods within Intel.- How Agile is Agile Enough? Toward a Theory of Agility in Software Development.- Improving Business Agility Through Technical Solutions: A Case Study on Test-Driven Development in Mobile Software Development.- Web Publishing: An Extreme, Agile Experience.- Using the Mission Critical Market Differentiating (MCMD) Model to Improve Business and Information Technology Agility.- Business Agility.- Agility and Information Technology Diffusion in the Semiconductor Industry.- Assessing Business Agility: A Multi-Industry Study in The Netherlands.- A Framework for Enterprise Agility and the Enabling Role of Digital Options.- Agile Enterprise Cornerstones: Knowledge, Values, and Response Ability.- Challenges Ahead.- How to Make Government Agile to Cope with Organizational Change.- Reflections on Software Agility and Agile Methods: Challenges, Dilemmas, and the Way Ahead.- Panels.- Looking Back and Looking Forward: Diffusion and Adoption of Information Technology Research in IFIP WG 8.6—Achievements and Future Challenges.- Agile Software Development Methods: When and Why Do They Work?.- Enabling Business Agility Through Information Technology Management.

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