Abstract
In assuring organizational agility, informing activities play a key role by sensing the environment for important changes. A special part has to be assigned to business intelligence (BI) activities, since their exact task is to monitor the environment and detect important issues to provide ground for well-informed responses. In turbulent business environment, BI function has to adjust dynamically to maintain the quality of produced insights. A survey on published research has shown that many sources stress the importance of agile BI on organizational agility in general. However, the importance of managerial and especially cultural factors for the role of informing in building up agility competencies is under-researched. The technology factors of agile informing that create preconditions for organizational agility are much better researched and evaluated than their human and managerial counterparts. There appears to be a need for consistent research approach in favor of the less researched human and managerial factors. The goal of this paper is to define research framework by addressing agility issues at three levels: organizational, information and BI agility. This framework is going to serve as a foundation for planned research on the factors of BI agility.
Highlights
The Concept of Agility in GeneralThe term of “agility” has been actively talked about in business context for the last decade, agility has always been an essential feature for businesses operating in a dynamic environment
Many definitions of organizational agility exist, in this paper we understand it according to the definition provided by Seo and LaPaz: organizational agility can be defined as a set of processes that allows an organization to sense changes in the internal and external environment, respond efficiently and effectively in a timely and cost-effective manner, and learn from the experience to improve the competencies of the organization (Seo and La Paz, 2008)
One of the assumptions made in this initial research phase is that organizational agility, information agility and business intelligence (BI) agility are tightly interconnected by the important role of informing activities, and factors important for one type of agility may be important for other types as well
Summary
The term of “agility” has been actively talked about in business context for the last decade, agility has always been an essential feature for businesses operating in a dynamic environment. ISSN 1392-0561 eISSN 1392-1487 Informacijos mokslai for an adequate level of preparedness to cope with inevitable and significant shakeup of resources and activities This brings agility issues close to the area of change management. The internal forces driving organizational change refer to events, factors, people, systems, structures, and conditions inside the organization that are generally under the control of the company (Mullins and Christy, 2013; Senior, 2002) The external forces such as social, cultural, political and economic factors, technological advances, competition, globalization, customers’ expectations are those factors that occur outside of the company but cause change inside organization and are, for the most part, beyond the control of the company (Mullins and Christy, 2013; Senior, 2002; Dawson, 2003; Fallik, 2013). The agility of BI systems and activities may be defined as the capacity to maintain and reconfigure the portfolio of important informing competencies that provides maximum resiliency or scalability for future trends or opportunities
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