Building and Maintaining Strategic Agility: An Agenda and Framework for Executive IT leaders. (November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Morton, Josh; Stacey, Patrick; Mohn, Matthias
• Is Part Of: California management review. Volume 61:Number 1(2018)
• Page Start: 94
• Page End: 113
• Publication Date: 2018-11
• Subjects: strategy -- strategic management -- agility -- information technology -- leadership -- leadership styles; Industrial management -- Periodicals; Industrial management; Management; Bedrijfseconomie; Periodicals; 658.005
• DOI: 10.1177/0008125618790245
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0008-1256

Abstract

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.