Week 3
pinkykSchool of Computer & Information Sciences ITS-631- Operational Excellence Chapter 3 – Information Technology and Organizational Learning
Introduction
Technology as a variable and responsive organizational dynamism
Focuses on defining the components of technology and how they affect corporate organizations.
Answers the questions: how should organizations adjust to its short and long term impacts.
Technological Dynamism
Technology should be regarded as a variable, independent of others, that contributes to the life of a business operation.
Technology can produce a distinctive effect on an organization.
Dynamism is defined as a process or mechanism responsible for the development of motion of a system.
Technological dynamism is the unpredictable and accelerated way in which technology can change strategic planning and organizational behavior.
Responsive Organizational Dynamism
The technological dynamism has the power to disrupt any antecedent sense of comfortable equilibrium of stasis.
Strategic integration
Cultural assimilation
Cultural Assimilation
A process that focuses on organizational aspects of how technology is internally organized including the role of the IT department, and how it is assimilated within the organization as a whole.
IT Organization Communications with Others
Movement of Traditional IT Staff
Technology Business Cycle
To better understand technology dynamism it is necessary to define the specific steps that occur during its evolution in an organization:
IT Roles and Responsibilities and Replacement or Outsource
Two distinct business operations
IT need to change accordingly and should be designed within the driver and supporter theory
Replacement or Outsource
References
Langer, A. M. (2018). Information Technology and Organizational Learning. 3rd edition. Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. ISBN: 978-1-138-23858-9