Synopses & Reviews
This book addresses issues related to business agility and the diffusion of Information Technology (IT). Success, even survival, in today's business environment has been made complex and difficult by technologically-based competitive pressure. One promising strategy is to be agile and ready to adapt quickly to changes in the environment or market. Such strategy takes shape as an agile software development, agile manufacturing, agile modeling and agile iterations. In contrast, successful IT diffusion is known to be a process that takes time and careful effort. Many IT projects that succeeded in developing a product have subsequently failed in changing the behavior of the target group when diffusion just didn't happen. Therefore this volume responds to the question: What is the relationship between agility and IT diffusion? The book's scope covers information systems and technology issues, as well as organizational and managerial issues, related to agility and IT diffusion. The planned perspectives include topics such as diffusion of agile methods, enabling business agility with IT, creating agile environments that facilitate diffusion of IT, theories and frameworks for understanding diffusion and agility issues, best practices relating to business agility and IT diffusion, software process improvement and agility, diffusion studies of specific agile technologies, and impacts of diffusion of IT agile methods.
Synopsis
Th s book developed as the collective product of the Internat onal Federat on for Informat on Process ng (IFIP) Wo k ng Group 8 6, a workmg group ded cated to the study of d ffus on and adoptlon of nformat on technology nnovat ons The book proceeds from the IFIP Workmg Conference on Busmess Aglhty and IT D ffus on held In Atlanta, Georg a, In May of 2005 The conference employed a p bl c call for papers and attracted a total of 42 subm ss ons These ncluded 27 full research papers, and 15 other papers, case stud es, pract t oner experlence reports, posters, and panels The conference program committee efereed subm ss ons In a double-blmd revlew process Select on of the papels for ncluslon In thls book (and appearance at the conference) was d fficult, as the quahty of these subm ss ons led to an Impresswe number of pos t ve revlews Ult mately we selected 13 research papers, two case stud es, and three experlence reports, along with three panels The papers s ibm tted by the conference's three keynote speakers here ed torlally rev ewed and also appear In th s book Staglng a conference and p oduclng a book 1s never poss ble w thout the commitment and hard work of many nd v duals and organlzatlons We want to thank IFIP and the sponsors for promotmg the confe ence and prov d ng support and fimdmg for ts lmplementat on The sponsors are IFIP, Georg a State Unners ty, Rob nson College of Busmess, Gartner, M crosoft, and Intel Also the conference has been supported by the Computer Informat on Systems Department and Center for Process Innovat on at Georg a State Unl ers ty
Synopsis
International Federation for Information Processing The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of referred international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing. For more information about the 300 other books in the IFIP series, please visit springeronline.com. For more information about IFIP, please visit www.ifip.or.at.
Table of Contents
From the contents: Part 1: Why Agility Now?- Part 2: Agile IT Diffusion.- Part 3: IT Infrastructures Agility.-Part 4: Agile Development.- Part 5: Business Agility.- Information Technology Diffusion Research.- Agility in Information Systems Development.- Part 6: Challenges Ahead.- Part 7: Panels.- Index of Contributors.