Building and Maintaining Strategic Agility: An Agenda and Framework for Executive IT leaders

While much literature on strategic agility has focused on strategic flexibility and adaption at organizational levels, there is a need to provide specific guidance at lower, more discrete levels of analysis. This article focuses on the context of a particular professional group, executive informatio...

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Published in:California management review 2018-11, Vol.61 (1), p.94-113
Main Authors: Morton, Josh, Stacey, Patrick, Mohn, Matthias
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Executives
Flexibility
Information technology
Leadership
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Summary:While much literature on strategic agility has focused on strategic flexibility and adaption at organizational levels, there is a need to provide specific guidance at lower, more discrete levels of analysis. This article focuses on the context of a particular professional group, executive information technology (IT) leaders, who have received attention in recent years for their evolving strategic role at the forefront of firms. It identifies and illustrates a number of practices these actors demonstrate in building and maintaining strategic agility, and it concludes by conceptualizing these practices in an agenda and framework for managers.
ISSN:0008-1256
2162-8564
DOI:10.1177/0008125618790245