Increasing the Agility of IT Delivery: Five Types of Bimodal IT Organization
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Increasing the Agility of IT Delivery : Five Types of Bimodal IT Organization. / Horlach, Bettina; Drews, Paul; Schirmer, Ingrid et al.
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017. ed. / Tung X. Bui; Ralph Sprague. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2017. p. 5420-5429 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; Vol. 2017-January).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Increasing the Agility of IT Delivery
T2 - 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - HICSS 2017
AU - Horlach, Bettina
AU - Drews, Paul
AU - Schirmer, Ingrid
AU - Böhmann, Tilo
N1 - Conference code: 50
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In 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.
AB - In 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.
KW - Business informatics
KW - Agility
KW - Alignment
KW - Bimodal IT
KW - Digital Transformation
UR - https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/41818
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087375549&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.24251/HICSS.2017.656
DO - 10.24251/HICSS.2017.656
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 5420
EP - 5429
BT - Proceedings of the 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
A2 - Sprague, Ralph
PB - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Y2 - 4 January 2017 through 7 January 2017
ER -