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Werder, Karl ORCID: 0000-0001-8481-1596, Richter, Janek ORCID: 0000-0003-3189-9357, Hennel, Phil ORCID: 0000-0002-9845-5112, Dreesen, Tim ORCID: 0000-0002-4581-9664, Fischer, Mareike and Weingarth, Janina (2020). A Three-pronged View on Organizational Agility. IT professional : technology solutions for the enterprise.

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Abstract

The ability of organizations to sense and respond to changes–defined as organizational agility–is considered by senior executives among their top information technology (IT) concerns as an important ability for organizations on their quest toward sustainedcompetitive advantage. However, every transformation toward agility also comes at a cost, requiring resource commitment and IT landscape changes. We present examples of successful and unsuccessful attempts at achieving agility while leveraging IT. Our presented cases focus on information systems development agility, customer agility, and entrepreneurial agility. Our findings suggest that agility is neither achieved easily, nor is a guarantor for success.Depending on the context and implementation of organizational agility, however, it can significantly improve process and product performance. We develop a three-pronged viewconsisting of a functional,temporal,andambidextrous viewtoresolve thesechallenges. We end with three recommendations for practitioners that seek to shape their organization’s journey toward agility.

Item Type:	Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Werder, Karl UNSPECIFIED https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8481-1596 UNSPECIFIED Richter, Janek janek.richter@wiso.uni-koeln.de https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3189-9357 UNSPECIFIED Hennel, Phil hennel@wiso.uni-koeln.de https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9845-5112 UNSPECIFIED Dreesen, Tim dreesen@wiso.uni-koeln.de https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4581-9664 80653086 Fischer, Mareike UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Weingarth, Janina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-121531
Journal or Publication Title:	IT professional : technology solutions for the enterprise
Date:	2020
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences > Business Administration > Information Systems > Professorship for Integrated Information Systems
Subjects:	Data processing Computer science Social sciences Management and auxiliary services
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Organizational management and coordination UNSPECIFIED Organizational Impacts UNSPECIFIED
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/12153