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Track Chair:
Lan Cao, Old Dominion University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Jongwoo (Jonathan) Kim, University of Massachusetts Boston, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Kannan Mohan, Baruch College, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Track Description:
Organizations have recognized the importance of the need to swiftly sense and respond to changes in the marketplace. Organizations resort to different approaches to developing organizational agility based on several contextual conditions. Agility can span from operational to strategic in that organizations can focus specifically on streamlining their operations or consider agility at the strategic level focusing on game-changing opportunities. Depending on their focus, organizations need to adapt their approach to agility. This track explores relationship between IT and organizational agility. How does IT play an instrumental role in enabling organizational agility? How does IT shape various business processes in shaping organizational agility? How is agility differentiated across various business processes? What can we learn from specific pockets of literature such as those on agile software development agility, lean development, etc. to develop insights into the relationship between organizational agility and IT. This track is open various types of research including those that use quantitative, qualitative, and theoretical approaches to examining IT-enabled organizational agility.
Mini Tracks:
Agility and Sustainability Through Business Process Engineering
Philip Hysmans, University of Antwerp, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Jan Verelst, University of Antwerp, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Jorge Sanz, University of Antwerp, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
This minitrack explores approaches based on systematic design and engineering of business processes and their supporting IT infrastructures. Such approaches could be classified under the term ‘Business Process Engineering’. How do organizations use engineering concepts such as modularity and stability in order to optimize their organizational and IT artefacts? What is the relationship between concepts such as agility, stability and sustainability? Is agility used to build sustainable systems, or short-term throw-away implementations of IT systems ? How does agility at the business process level affect IT agility and vice versa ? How to measure or conceptualize agility, and how to formulate design principles for the modular structures of IT and organizational systems in order to cope more effectively with imposed changes?
IT-Enabled Agility and Firm Innovation
Prasanna Karhade, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
John Qi Dong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">
Firms need to respond and adapt to the turbulent environment through various innovations, such as new products, new business processes, and new forms of organization. Agility has long been recognized as vital to creating these innovations. It is particularly important for firms operating in the industries with high clockspeed to cope with the environmental dynamism. As today’s firms increasingly rely on information technology (IT) to develop their dynamic capabilities and organizational agility, how IT-enabled agility is developed and transformed into innovation outcomes needs to be understood. This minitrack calls for the research on IT, agility, and firm innovation.
Business Intelligence/Analytics and Organizational Agility
Peng Xu, University of Massachusetts Boston, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The amount of data available to businesses is exploding. Data now is considered a highly valuable corporate resource. The ability to integrate and analyze data has become extremely important in today’s turbulent environment. Business intelligence and analytics are crucial for organizations to sense and respond to market competition and changing demands. Understanding how BI/BA can be implemented to support business agility and how they can transform business processes has become imperative. Currently, the understanding of BI/BA and their impact of business agility is limited. Much remains to be studied.