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Becoming an Agile Organization: Development of a Morphology for Strategic Agile Management Systems

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Collaborative Networks in Digitalization and Society 5.0 (PRO-VE 2022)

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Driven by different trends, such as digitalization, the number of companies aiming for successful business transformation is increasing, while new structures and systems are paving the way. Strategic agile management systems offer significant potential benefits given the increasing speed of the evolving environment in which organizations find themselves these days. To select and implement the appropriate strategic agile management system, companies need to understand the underlying theoretical principles to be able to select the most suitable for the respective company and to introduce it based on individual adaption. Within this paper, a morphology is presented to improve theoretical knowledge about strategic agile management systems. Creating a common understanding of strategic agile management systems and their current areas of application creates a suitable frame of reference for future research projects.

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Acknowledgments

This research is a part of the findings of the research project “OKReady”. The IGF project 21740 N of the Forschungsgemeinschaft Research Foundation FIR e. V. at RWTH Aachen University, Campus-Boulevard 55, 52074 Aachen, is funded by the AiF within the scope of the program for the promotion of industrial joint research (IGF) by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) based on a decision of the German Bundestag. Responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the authors. On behalf of the authors, we would like to thank the AiF for the support within the scope of this project.

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    Clara Herkenrath, Ruben Conrad & Volker Stich

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Herkenrath, C., Conrad, R., Stich, V. (2022). Becoming an Agile Organization: Development of a Morphology for Strategic Agile Management Systems. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Ortiz, A., Boucher, X., Osório, A.L. (eds) Collaborative Networks in Digitalization and Society 5.0. PRO-VE 2022. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 662. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14844-6_34

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