Bimodal IT: Business-IT alignment in the age of digital transformation
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Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI) 2016. Hrsg. / Volker Nissen; Dirk Stelzer; Steffen Straßburger; Daniel Fischer. Band III Universitätsverlag Ilmenau - ilmedia, 2016. S. 1417-1428.
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T1 - Bimodal IT
T2 - Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI) 2016
AU - Horlach, Bettina
AU - Drews, Paul
AU - Schirmer, Ingrid
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Today, companies face a challenge, which has been coined as “digitalization” or “digital transformation”. As a reaction to this challenge, many companies see the need of establishing a new “digital IT” unit or of shifting responsibility for IT systems to the business units. These changes should allow the business to be better informed, more flexible and faster in adapting its IT as well as its IT-enabled services and products to market opportunities and customer needs. The coexistence of digital IT and traditional IT has been coined as “bimodal IT” or “two-speed IT”. By employing a literature review and a qualitative document analysis, this article clarifies the concept of bimodal IT and identifies implications for the business-IT alignment in organizations. We further describe and contrast the characteristics of “traditional IT” and “digital IT”. In addition, we summarize various approaches for implementing bimodal IT on the architecture, process and organizational level. Finally, we address critical observations raised in respect of the bimodal IT concept.
AB - Today, companies face a challenge, which has been coined as “digitalization” or “digital transformation”. As a reaction to this challenge, many companies see the need of establishing a new “digital IT” unit or of shifting responsibility for IT systems to the business units. These changes should allow the business to be better informed, more flexible and faster in adapting its IT as well as its IT-enabled services and products to market opportunities and customer needs. The coexistence of digital IT and traditional IT has been coined as “bimodal IT” or “two-speed IT”. By employing a literature review and a qualitative document analysis, this article clarifies the concept of bimodal IT and identifies implications for the business-IT alignment in organizations. We further describe and contrast the characteristics of “traditional IT” and “digital IT”. In addition, we summarize various approaches for implementing bimodal IT on the architecture, process and organizational level. Finally, we address critical observations raised in respect of the bimodal IT concept.
KW - Business informatics
UR - https://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbt_derivate_00033065/ilm1-2016100035.pdf
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
SN - 978-3-86360-132-4
VL - III
SP - 1417
EP - 1428
BT - Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI) 2016
A2 - Nissen, Volker
A2 - Stelzer, Dirk
A2 - Straßburger, Steffen
A2 - Fischer, Daniel
PB - Universitätsverlag Ilmenau - ilmedia
Y2 - 9 March 2016 through 11 March 2016
ER -