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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Main Authors: Mohn, M. (Author), Morton, J. (Author), Stacey, P. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications Ltd 2018
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520 3 |a 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. © The Regents of the University of California 2018. 
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