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An Approach for the Evaluation of the Agility in the Context of Enterprise Interoperability

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Today the concept of agility has become popular and is still growing in popularity in the management and technology literatures. How do we really define an agile information system? How do we know if an information system is agile? And how do we evaluate the agility in the context of enterprise information systems? This paper tries to answer some of these questions. It precisely aims to present the concept of agility of information systems and also provides an approach for the evaluation of this agility, namely POIRE approach that evaluates the agility as an amalgamation function that combines the agility measure of five complementary aspects that are Process, Organizational, Informational, Resource and Environmental aspects. Finally, this paper studies the role of interoperability in achieving agility and also the rapprochement of the concept of interoperability with the concept of agility.

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  1. Industrial Engineering and Computer Science Laboratory, OMSI Division, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Étienne, 158 cours Fauriel, 42023, Saint-Etienne, Cedex 2, France

    S. Izza & L. Vincent

  2. Department of Informatics, LIFAB, University of Boumerdes, Boumerdes, Algeria

    R. Imache

  3. Department of Informatics, University of Tizi-Ouzou, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria

    Y. Lounis

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  1. Fraunhofer IPK, Pascalstraße 8-9, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Kai Mertins

  2. SAP AG, Vincenz-Prießnitz-Straße 1, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Rainer Ruggaber

  3. Future Manufacturing Applied Research Centre, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB, UK

    Keith Popplewell

  4. School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, 92 West Da-Zhi Street, Harbin, P.R. China

    Xiaofei Xu

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Izza, S., Imache, R., Vincent, L., Lounis, Y. (2008). An Approach for the Evaluation of the Agility in the Context of Enterprise Interoperability. In: Mertins, K., Ruggaber, R., Popplewell, K., Xu, X. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability III. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-221-0_1

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