TY - GEN
T1 - Role of information systems in organizational agility
T2 - 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010
AU - Seo, Dong Back
AU - Miranda, Jaime
AU - La Paz, Ariel
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Organizations need to exhibit characteristics of agility in order to stay ahead of their competitors, and to even survive in dynamic environments. One major concern for organizations is how to develop and implement Information Systems (IS) for their agility. However, IS are mostly regarded as a black-box related to organizational functions and structures. For this reason, organizations tend to overly spend their resources to change whole IS instead of one component that causes problems, or even making a good diagnosis. In this paper, we provide a way to open the IS black-box with a case study. The case is about how the department of Management Control and Information Systems at Universidad de Chile improves its organizational agility with a course scheduling system, eClasSkeduler. The case analysis illustrates not only how the organization improves its agility through eClasSkeduler but also how this information system is related to organizational functions in agility.
AB - Organizations need to exhibit characteristics of agility in order to stay ahead of their competitors, and to even survive in dynamic environments. One major concern for organizations is how to develop and implement Information Systems (IS) for their agility. However, IS are mostly regarded as a black-box related to organizational functions and structures. For this reason, organizations tend to overly spend their resources to change whole IS instead of one component that causes problems, or even making a good diagnosis. In this paper, we provide a way to open the IS black-box with a case study. The case is about how the department of Management Control and Information Systems at Universidad de Chile improves its organizational agility with a course scheduling system, eClasSkeduler. The case analysis illustrates not only how the organization improves its agility through eClasSkeduler but also how this information system is related to organizational functions in agility.
KW - And agility framework
KW - Effect of IS in organizational agility
KW - IS black-box
KW - Organizational agility
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84870384897
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:84870384897
SN - 9781617389528
T3 - 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010
SP - 4533
EP - 4544
BT - 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010
Y2 - 12 August 2010 through 15 August 2010
ER -