Organizational design is a critical facilitator of strategic information age initiatives. Yet traditional IT structures are misaligned with the information age because they cannot cope with continual change and the rapid horizontal introduction and utilization of gregarious information technologies. An organizational structure that combines the ideas of minibusinesses and the internal marketpla...

Mass customization manufacturing requires a high level of reconfigurability and flexibility in production – especially in production planning and control –, effective information systems, as well as suitable production concepts. Multi-agent systems theoretically provide the required features, but a lack of informational integration and organizational incompatibilities lead to low applicability....

Tendencies such as the increasing spread of market globalization, new technological developments, the reduction of product life cycles and aggressive competition, are generating high levels of environmental changes and uncertainty for organizations of all types (Volberda, 1996; Sanchez, 1997). These circumstances require rapid responses through adaptations of organizational attitudes and capabi...

The need for organizational learning support is common among all software development companies but is not addressed by agile software methods practitioners. The typical Experience Factory approach to address organizational learning in software companies often stresses structured and explicit knowledge as well as controlled learning mechanisms. In contrast, the Communities of Practice approach ...

The aim of this study is to articulate and test the relationships between organizational culture and two attributes of performance measurement systems (PMS), namely the diversity of measurement and the nature of use. The results of a survey reveal that top managers of firms reflecting a flexibility dominant type tend to use more performance measures and to use PMS to focus organizational attent...

Context-awareness is a common feature of contemporary knowledge management systems (KMS). The intended effect of context-awareness is to tailor appearance, functionality and behavior of KMS to the needs and individual preferences of knowledge workers and to contribute to flexibility in organizational KMS use by supporting the integration of knowledge use into work processes. The variability of ...

the objective of study was designing of structural model of organizational mindfulness: a mixed reseach. this study was an explanatory sequential design and applied research. in qualitative unit, population were the experts of schools of management of public universities of tehran, sample were 14 experts of management and sampling was snowball and semi-structured interviews were implemented. in...

the role of information technology (it) in shaping tomorrow’s operations is a distinctive one. the internet is a pervasive phenomenon and it is commonly believed that the internet and its inherent distributed capabilities lead to decentralized views. they have had profound effects on organizational structure, because organizations can gain enormous location flexibility in various activities. wh...

In this chapter, flexibility and adaptation of collaborative processes occurring among organizations by applying the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) at the inter-organizational level are considered. First, an in-depth rationale for a service-oriented approach to inter-organizational collaboration is presented. The need for SOA at the inter-organizational level is explained by the ubiquity o...