Agile Information Systems: Conceptualization, Construction, and Management

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This book presents cutting-edge research and
thinking on agile information systems. The concept of agile information
systems has gained strength over the last 3 years, coming into the MIS world
from manufacturing, where agile manufacturing systems has been an important
concept for several years now. The idea of agility is powerful: with
competition so fierce today and the speed of business so fast, a company's
ability to move with their customers and support constant changing business
needs is more important than ever. Agile information systems: – have the
ability to add, remove, modify, or extend functionalities with minimal
penalties in terms of time, cost, and effort – have the ability to process
information in a flexible manner – have the ability to accommodate and adjust
to the changing needs of the end-users. This is the first book to bring
together academic experts, researchers, and practitioners to discuss how
companies can create and deploy agile information systems. Contributors are
well-regarded academics known to be on the cutting-edge of their fields. The
Editor, Kevin Desouza, has organized the chapters under three categories: –
discussion of the concept of agile information systems (i.e. defining agile
information management, its attributes, antecedents, consequences, etc.) –
discussion of information systems within the context of agility (i.e.,
descriptions of agile information systems and their attributes, how to build
agile information systems, etc.) – discussion of organizational management
issues in the context of agile information systems (i.e., how to prepare the
organization for agile information systems, management of agile information
systems for improved organizational performance, etc.)
 
Table
of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements About the
Editor About the Contributors 1. Strategizing for agility: Confronting
information systems inflexibility in dynamic environments, Robert D. Galliers

1. Agile information systems for agile decision making, William B. Rouse 3.
   The logic of knowledge: KM principles support agile systems, William E. Halal
2. Producing and consuming agility, Anders M?rtensson 5. Business agility:
   Need, readiness and alignment with IT-strategies, Marcel van Oosterhout, Eric
   Waarts, Eric van Heck, and Jos van Hillegersberg 6. Achieving economic returns
   from IS support for strategic flexibility: The roles of firm-specific,
   complementary organizational culture and structure, Michael J. Zhang 7.
   Balancing stability and flexibility: The case of the California Energy
   Commission, Miguel Gabriel Custodio, Alan Thorogood, and Philip Yetton 8.
   Enabling strategic agility through agile information systems: The roles of
   loose coupling and web services oriented architecture, John G Mooney and Dale
   Ganley 9. Agile information systems as a double dream, Silvia Gherardi and
   Andrea Silli 10. Degrees of agility: Implications for information systems
   design and firm strategy, Tsz-Wai Lui and Gabriele Piccoli 11. Integration
   management for heterogeneous Information Systems, Joachim Schelp and Robert
   Winter 12. Investigating the role of information systems in contributing to
   the agility of modern supply chains, Adrian E. Coronado M. and Andrew C. Lyons
3. Clumsy Information Systems: A critical review of Enterprise Systems, Sue
   Newell, Erica L Wagner, and Gary David 14. Enterprise information systems and
   the preservation of agility, Anthony Wensley and Eveline van Stijn 15.
   Interpretative flexibility and hosted ERP systems, Sarah Cadili and Edgar A.
   Whitley 16. Agile drivers, capabilities and value: An over-arching assessment
   framework for systems development, Kieran Conboy and Brian Fitzgerald 17.
   Vigilant information systems: The Western digital experience, Bob Houghton,
   Omar A. El Sawy, Paul Gray, Craig Donegan, and Ashish Joshi 18. Coors Brewing
   point of sale application suite: An agile development project, Jack Buffington
   and Donald J. McCubbrey 19. Organizational agility with mobile ICT? The case
   of London Black Cab Work, Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood and Carsten S?rensen 20.
   Co-evolution and Co-design of agile organizations and information systems
   through agent-based modeling, Mark E. Nissen and Yan Jin