TY - CHAP

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 -