Agility eats Legacy - the Long Good-bye

Digital disruption is a key driver of business development. Only those companies who embrace the new digital options and find their appropriate speed for change will survive. As speed is often matched with agility it is important to look deeper into the concept of agility. Furthermore, this document...

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Published inIFAC-PapersOnLine Vol. 52; no. 25; pp. 154 - 158
Main Author Jesse, Norbert
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2019
Subjects
Agility
Digital Disruption
Leadership
Organizational Change
Leadership
Organizational Change
Digital Disruption
Agility
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Summary:Digital disruption is a key driver of business development. Only those companies who embrace the new digital options and find their appropriate speed for change will survive. As speed is often matched with agility it is important to look deeper into the concept of agility. Furthermore, this document addresses questions of measurability while relating it to experiences in Germany. IT is a driver of agility, but is also driven by agility. It is necessary to discuss the role agile IT plays in a company’s success on the market. A reorientation of the IT towards agility is one of the keys to leveraging commercial success. Low-code platforms and agile methods like scrum play a crucial role. IT strategists have to decide upon how and how fast agile approaches can replace traditional project management approaches and tools. Finally, the C-Level has to lead the company from a hard-coded silos approach to an interlinked, team and task-based organization.
ISSN:2405-8963
2405-8963
DOI:10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.12.464