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Adaptability and Flexibility in ISD

In: Business Information Technology Management Alternative and Adaptive futures

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  • Guy Fitzgerald

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This chapter addresses the issue of flexibility of IS. More flexible and adaptable systems are required to meet the rapidly changing demands of modern organisations operating in an increasingly turbulent environment. Organisations are beginning to find that their existing IS cannot be changed quickly or cheaply enough and that information systems are becoming a barrier to change. Some of the issues are discussed in the context of findings from various research studies including a recent survey of over 300 organisations developing IS in the UK. Discussion focuses on environment of development, maintenance workloads, enhancement, types of change, and causes of change. One of the areas of particular concern is the time and resources required to effectively and quickly adapt systems to respond to the increasing change that organisations are undergoing.

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  • Guy Fitzgerald, 2000. "Adaptability and Flexibility in ISD," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Ray Hackney & Dennis Dunn (ed.), Business Information Technology Management Alternative and Adaptive futures, chapter 1, pages 13-24, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-97767-5_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333977675_2
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