| Description |
xxix, 291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Strategizing for Agility: Confronting Information -- Systems Inflexibiity in Dynamic Environments 1 -- Robert D. Galliers -- 2 -- Agile Information Systems for Agile Decision Making 16 -- William B. Rouse -- 3 -- -rThe Logic of Knowledge: KM Principles Support -- A gile Syst em s 1 -- William E. Halal -- 4 -- Producing and Consuming Agility 41 -- Anders Martensson -- 5 -- Business Agility: Need, Readiness and Alignment with -- IT Strategies 52 -- Marcel van Oosterhout, Eric Waarts, Eric van Heck, -- and Jos van Hillegers herg -- 6 -- Achieving Economic Returns from IS Support for -- Strategic Flexibility: The Roles of Firm-Specific, -- Complementary Organizational Culture and Structure 70 -- Michael J. Zhang -- 7 -- Balancing Stability and Flexibility: The Case of the -- California Energy Commission 83 -- 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 97 -- John G. Mooney and Dale Ganley -- 9 -- Agile Information Systemss a Double Dream -- Silvia Gherardi and Andrea Silli -- 10 -- Degrees of Agility: Implications for Information -- Systems Design and Firm Strategy 122 -- Tsz-Wai Lui and Gabriele Piccoli -- 11 -- Integration Management for Heterogeneous -- Inform ation System s 134 -- Joachim Schelp and Robert Winter -- 12 -- investigating the Role of Information Systems in -- Contributing to the Agility of Modern Supply Chains 150 -- Aidran E. Coronado M. and Andrew C. Lons -- 13 -- Clumsy Information Systems: A Critical Review of -- Enterprise System s 163 -- Sue Neweill Erica L. Wagner, and Gary David -- 14 -- Enterprise Information Systems and the Preservation -- of A gility 178 -- Anthony Wensley and Eveline van Stijn -- 15 -- "Interpretative Flexibility and Hosted ERP Systems 188 -- Sarah Cadi and Edgar A. Whitley -- 16 -- Agile Drivers, Capabilities and Value: An Over-Arching -- Assessment Framework for Systems Development 207 -- Kieran Conboy and Brian Fitzgerald -- 17 -- Vigilant Information Systems: The Western Digital -- Experience 222 -- obert J. Houghton, Ornar A. El Sawy, Paul Gray, Craig Donegan, -- and Ashish Joshi -- 18 -- Coors Brewing Point of Sale Application Suite: An Agile -- Development Proiect 239 -- ac k Bufington and Donald j. McCubbrey -- 19 -- Organizational Agility with Mobile ICT? The Case of -- London Black Cab Work -- Silvia Elalif-Calderwood and Carsten Sorensen -- 20 -- Co-Evolution and Co-Design of Agile Organizations -- and Information Systems Through Agent-Based -- M odeling -- Mark E. Nissen and Yan Jin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Management.
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Management information systems.
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| Author |
Desouza, Kevin C., 1979-
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| LC no. |
2006040569 |
| ISBN |
0750682353 alkaline paper |
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