This book presents cutting-edge research and thinking on agile information systems. The concept of agile information systems has gained strength over the last 3 years, coming into the MIS world from manufacturing, where agile manufacturing systems has been an important concept for several years now. The idea of agility is powerful: with competition so fierce today and the speed of business so fast, a company's ability to move with their customers and support constant changing business needs is more important than ever. Agile information systems:. have the ability to add, remove, modify, or extend functionalities with minimal penalties in terms of time, cost, and effort . have the ability to process information in a flexible manner . have the ability to accommodate and adjust to the changing needs of the end-users.This is the first book to bring together academic experts, researchers, and practitioners to discuss how companies can create and deploy agile information systems. Contributors are well-regarded academics known to be on the cutting-edge of their fields.The Editor, Kevin Desouza, has organized the chapters under three categories: . discussion of the concept of agile information systems (i.e. defining agile information management, its attributes, antecedents, consequences, etc.). discussion of information systems within the context of agility (i.e., descriptions of agile information systems and their attributes, how to build agile information systems, etc.). discussion of organizational management issues in the context of agile information systems (i.e., how to prepare the organization for agile information systems, management of agile information systems for improved organizational performance, etc.)

Chapter 1 Strategizing for Agility, Robert D. Galliers; Chapter 2 Agile Information Systems for Agile Decision Making, William B. Rouse; Chapter 3 The Logic of Knowledge, William E. Halal; Chapter 4 Producing and Consuming Agility, Anders Mårtensson; Chapter 5 Business Agility, Marcel van Oosterhout, Eric Waarts, Eric van Heck, Jos van Hillegersberg; Chapter 6 Achieving Economic Returns from IS Support for Strategic Flexibility, Michael J. Zhang; Chapter 7 Balancing Stability and Flexibility, Miguel Gabriel Custodio, Alan Thorogood, Philip Yetton; Chapter 8 Enabling Strategic Agility Through Agile Information Systems, John G. Mooney, Dale Ganley; Chapter 9 Agile Information Systems as a Double Dream, Silvia Gherardi, Andrea Silli; Chapter 10 Degrees of Agility, Tsz-Wai Lui, Gabriele Piccoli; Chapter 11 Integration Management for Heterogeneous Information Systems, Joachim Schelp, Robert Winter; Chapter 12 Investigating the Role of Information Systems in Contributing to the Agility of Modern Supply Chains, E. Adrian, M. Coronado, Andrew C. Lyons; Chapter 13 Clumsy Information Systems, Sue Newell, Erica L. Wagner, Gary David; Chapter 14 Enterprise Information Systems and the Preservation of Agility, Anthony Wensley, Eveline van Stijn; Chapter 15 Material from this chapter originally appeared in "On the interpretative flexibility of hosted ERP systems," Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 14 (2005), 167-195., Sarah Cadili, Edgar A. Whitley; Chapter 16 Agile Drivers, Capabilities, and Value, Kieran Conboy, Brian Fitzgerald; Chapter 17 Vigilant Information Systems, Robert J. Houghton, Omar A. El Sawy, Paul Gray, Craig Donegan, Ashish Joshi; Chapter 18 Coors Brewing Point of Sale Application Suite, Jack Buffington, Donald J. McCubbrey; Chapter 19 Organizational Agility with Mobile ICT? The Case of London Black Cab Work, Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood, Carsten Sørensen; Chapter 20 Co-Evolution and Co-Design of Agile Organizations and Information Systems Through Agent-Based Modeling, Mark E. Nissen, Yan Jin;