Increasing the Agility of IT Delivery: Five Types of Bimodal IT Organization

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorHorlach, Bettina
dc.contributor.authorDrews, Paul
dc.contributor.authorSchirmer, Ingrid
dc.contributor.authorBoehmann, Tilo
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-29T02:01:13Z
dc.date.available2016-12-29T02:01:13Z
dc.date.issued2017-01-04
dc.description.abstractIn the age of digital business transformation, enterprises seek to increase their agility and speed of IT delivery. To accomplish this, they change their existing control-driven IT organizational structures and processes and establish separate modes for business-oriented and traditional IT delivery (“bimodal IT”). Though the concept of bimodal IT has been discussed in practice, empirical research regarding the approaches employed to implement bimodal IT is scarce. This paper presents findings from a qualitative-empirical study on the bimodal IT implementation approaches of nine companies. It identifies five different types of bimodal IT in these enterprises and shows that specific mechanisms are applied to enhance the (business) IT alignment in the respective organizational settings of each type. On the basis of similarities and differences among the types, we develop propositions for future research on bimodal IT and derive implications for practice.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2017.656
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-0-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/41818
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectAgility
dc.subjectAlignment
dc.subjectBimodal IT
dc.subjectDigital Transformation
dc.titleIncreasing the Agility of IT Delivery: Five Types of Bimodal IT Organization
dc.typeConference Paper
dc.type.dcmiText

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
paper0669.pdf
Size:
1.43 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Practice-based IS Research Minitrack