Evaluative Framewok for the Measurement of Egovernment Information Systems Agility

Agility is difficult to measure due to the vagueness of the concept. The overall problem of measurement is limited to three fundamental questions: what to measure? How to measure it? How to evaluate the results? Measurement of enterprise agility has been a major topic of research since the inception of agility in the early 90s. Some measurement methods have been developed; they mainly remain tied to manufacturing industry. Thereafter, the concept of agility was extended to supply chains, business networks and software development. In this paper, we try to extend more the concept of agility to the e-government field through an evaluative framework for the measurement of egovernment information systems (E-GIS) agility. The key idea of this framework is to combine the fundamental parts of an E-GIS with their operational parameters to evaluate the overall agility of the system. One of the advantages of this practical framework is that agility parameters are measured thanks to quantitative metrics, which allow decision-makers to examine and compare different systems at different agility levels. KeywordsE-government, information system, evaluation, agility, methods engineering.