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A conceptual framework for enterprise agility

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Joshua Chibuike Nwokeji,

Tony Clark,

Balbir Barn,

Vinay KulkarniAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '15: Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 1242 - 1244

https://doi.org/10.1145/2695664.2699495

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One of the challenges faced by modern day enterprises is agility, i.e, the ability to detect and respond to changes timely and effectively. These changes are caused by change drivers such as regulatory compliance and technology update/obsolescence. To be agile, enterprise stakeholders should have a consistent and structured technique for delineating and expressing change drivers. Such a technique can support decision by making it easier to understand the implications of change drivers, the elements of enterprise they can affect, their impact, and the actions required to manage them. This paper contributes by gathering key concepts of change drivers, and integrating them into a conceptual modelling language in form of a meta-model. This meta-model is then used to develop a proforma. In addition, we show how stakeholders can use our proforma to support decision making vis a vis change management.

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DOI:10.1145/2695664

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Nwokeji JMatovu R(2021)A Systematic Literature Review on Big Data Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL)Intelligent Computing10.1007/978-3-030-80126-7_24(308-324)Online publication date: 7-Jul-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80126-7_24
Nwokeji JFrezza SHolmes JUskov V(2017)Panel: Software requirements engineering education in a changing world2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)10.1109/FIE.2017.8190562(1-3)Online publication date: Oct-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2017.8190562
Kaczmarek-HeB M(2017)A Multilevel Model of Events in Support of Enterprise Agility in the Realm of Enterprise Modeling2017 IEEE 19th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI)10.1109/CBI.2017.58(267-276)Online publication date: Jul-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/CBI.2017.58
Nwokeji JClark TBarn BKulkarni VAnum S(2015)A Data-centric Approach to Change ManagementProceedings of the 2015 IEEE 19th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference10.1109/EDOC.2015.34(185-190)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/EDOC.2015.34

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