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Scaling Agility: How enterprises adopt agile forms of organizational design
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Abstract
The question of how to increase speed and flexibility in times of digital disruption is essential to almost any company. While previous research mainly addresses agility in the context of software development, as form for organizing startups or "born digital" companies, little knowledge exists about agility at enterprises. With an exploratory study of ten global cases, this paper aims at examining how enterprises adopt and scale agile forms of organizational design. Our preliminary results reveal that (1) agile forms of organizational design are currently adopted by enterprises at large scale and successively replace bimodal IT structures where agile and non-agile units coexist in parallel, (2) Spotify's organizational design serves as a widely used template for a fully agile unit, and (3) enterprises fine-tune this template to their needs and scale.
Language
English
Keywords
Agile structures
agile transformation
enterprise agility
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SoM - Business Innovation
Book title
ICIS 2018 Proceedings
Event Title
39th International Conference on Information Systems
Event Location
San Francisco, USA
Event Date
13.12.2018 - 16.12.2018
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Contact Email Address
daniel.gerster@student.unisg.ch
Eprints ID
256616