{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,31]],"date-time":"2022-03-31T05:27:30Z","timestamp":1648704450080},"reference-count":63,"publisher":"IGI Global","issue":"2","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2014,7]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>A rapidly changing market environment is forcing contemporary organizations to continually adapt themselves. This causes the need for organizational structures, processes as well as their supporting information systems (IS) to adapt accordingly. Nevertheless it is striking to note that few value management practices explicitly incorporate evolvability as an important criterion for their evaluation of information technology dependent strategic initiatives (ITDSI). In this paper, the authors try to make a contribution regarding this issue. They explore some possibilities for assessing the evolvability of an information technology (IT) application. In addition, a set of five specific management guidelines is proposed to guide organizations, which are willing to address this issue, in their efforts. This should enable an organization to more easily select and deploy evolvable information systems, enhance its overall alignment with its environment and obtain a competitive advantage. The relevance of our approach is demonstrated by showing how it fits within the enterprise goals, IT goals and enabling practices as defined by the COBIT framework.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4018\/ijitbag.2014070104","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,12,8]],"date-time":"2014-12-08T19:47:24Z","timestamp":1418068044000},"page":"70-87","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["On the Imperative Solicitude for Evolvability Evaluation in Value Management"],"prefix":"10.4018","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Kim","family":"Maes","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Antwerp Management School, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Peter","family":"De Bruyn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gilles","family":"Oorts","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Philip","family":"Huysmans","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"2432","reference":[{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-0","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/smj.4250140105"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1057\/ejis.2008.33"},{"issue":"4","key":"ijitbag.2014070104-2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"159","DOI":"10.1080\/07421222.2001.11045660","article-title":"Information technology competence of business managers: A definition and research model.","volume":"17","author":"G.Bassellier","year":"2001","journal-title":"Journal of Management Information Systems"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/248684"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/3250983"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1147\/sj.444.0691"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/163298.163309"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/249722"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-8","article-title":"The WyCash Portfolio Management System.","author":"W.Cunningham","year":"1992","journal-title":"Proceedings of OOPSLA 1992"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/10580530902794786"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ijproman.2005.02.003"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-11","author":"B.De Wit","year":"2010","journal-title":"Strategy Synthesis: Resolving Strategy Paradoxes to Create Competitive Advantage"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/249507"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1049\/ip-sen:20050045"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-14","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5465\/AMR.2010.48463331"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-15","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/236156.236170"},{"issue":"2","key":"ijitbag.2014070104-16","first-page":"73","article-title":"Addressing business agility challenges with enterprise systems.","volume":"8","author":"D.Goodhue","year":"2009","journal-title":"MIS Quarterly Executive"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-17","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.im.2004.08.002"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-18","author":"G.Hamel","year":"1994","journal-title":"Competing for the future"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-19","author":"P.Huysmans","year":"2011","journal-title":"On the feasibility of normalized enterprises: Applying normalized systems theory to the high-level design of enterprises"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-20","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-642-37478-4_3"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-21","first-page":"230","year":"2012","journal-title":"COBIT 5 Enabling Processes"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-22","unstructured":"ITGI. (2008). Enterprise Value: Governance of IT Investments. The Val IT Framework 2.0 (p. 116). IT Governance Institute. Retrieved from www.isaca.org"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-23","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-1-4615-3262-0"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-24","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ijinfomgt.2005.11.006"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-25","unstructured":"Keyes-Pearce, S. (2005). IT value management in leading firms, the fit between theory and practice (Doctoral dissertation). Australia."},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-26","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/249410"},{"issue":"1","key":"ijitbag.2014070104-27","first-page":"53","article-title":"Realizing the business value of information technology investments: An organizational process.","volume":"3","author":"R.Kohli","year":"2004","journal-title":"MIS Quarterly Executive"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-28","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jsis.2008.12.001"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-29","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4018\/irmj.2008070104"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-30","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/PROC.1980.11805"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-31","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/HICSS.2002.994358"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-32","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jom.2008.09.004"},{"issue":"4","key":"ijitbag.2014070104-33","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"931","DOI":"10.2307\/41409967","article-title":"Understanding the link between information technology capability and organizational agility: An empirical examination.","volume":"35","author":"Y.Lu","year":"2011","journal-title":"Management Information Systems Quarterly"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-34","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4018\/jitbag.2012010103"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-35","unstructured":"Maes, K., De Haes, S., & Van Grembergen, W. (2012b). The Identification and Definition of Value Management Practices Used to Deploy IS Investments. Presented at the Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Guimaraes, Portugal."},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-36","author":"H.Mannaert","year":"2009","journal-title":"Normalized systems: Re-creating information technology based on laws for software evolvability"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-37","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.scico.2010.11.009"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-38","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/spe.1051"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-39","author":"M.Miles","year":"1994","journal-title":"Qualitative data analysis: An expanded sourcebook"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-40","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1287\/mnsc.26.3.322"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-41","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.im.2004.10.003"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-42","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/HICSS.2014.585"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-43","author":"A.Oppenheim","year":"1997","journal-title":"Signals and systems"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-44","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1057\/palgrave.ejis.3000600"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-45","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jsis.2004.02.002"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-46","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.4018\/978-1-59140-140-7.ch002","article-title":"Information Strategies and Tactics for Information Technology Governance","author":"P.Peterson","year":"2004","journal-title":"Strategies for Information Technology Governance"},{"issue":"4","key":"ijitbag.2014070104-47","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"747","DOI":"10.2307\/25148708","article-title":"Review: IT-Dependent Strategic Initiatives and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature.","volume":"29","author":"G.Piccoli","year":"2005","journal-title":"Management Information Systems Quarterly"},{"issue":"1","key":"ijitbag.2014070104-48","article-title":"Building Enterprise Architecture Agility and Sustenance with SOA.","volume":"22","author":"M.Ren","year":"2008","journal-title":"Communications of the Association for Information Systems"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-49","author":"C.Rettig","year":"2007","journal-title":"The Trouble With Enterprise Software | MIT Sloan Management Review"},{"issue":"1","key":"ijitbag.2014070104-50","first-page":"31","article-title":"Develop long-term competitiveness through IT assets.","volume":"38","author":"J.Ross","year":"1996","journal-title":"Sloan Management Review"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-51","first-page":"24","article-title":"Reusability metrics for software components.","author":"O.Rotaru","year":"2005","journal-title":"IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications"},{"issue":"2","key":"ijitbag.2014070104-52","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"237","DOI":"10.2307\/30036530","article-title":"Shaping Agility through Digital Options: Reconceptualizing the Role of Information Technology in Contemporary Firms.","volume":"27","author":"V.Sambamurthy","year":"2003","journal-title":"Management Information Systems Quarterly"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-53","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0263-7863(94)00008-Z"},{"issue":"1","key":"ijitbag.2014070104-54","article-title":"How Does Enterprise Architecture Add Value to Organisations?","volume":"28","author":"T.Tamm","year":"2011","journal-title":"Communications of the Association for Information Systems"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-55","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jsis.2007.09.001"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-56","author":"D.Van Nuffel","year":"2011","journal-title":"Towards designing modular and evolvable business processes"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-57","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1057\/palgrave.ejis.3000601"},{"issue":"1\/2","key":"ijitbag.2014070104-58","first-page":"46","article-title":"Experiences with the automatic discovery of violations to the normalized systems design theorems.","volume":"4","author":"K.Ven","year":"2011","journal-title":"International Journal on Advances in Software"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-59","article-title":"IT wasn\u2019t different at all: Implications of Normalized Systems for the industrialization of Software Development.","author":"J.Verelst","year":"2013","journal-title":"Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Business Informatics"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-60","author":"E.Wenger","year":"2002","journal-title":"Cultivating Communities of Practice"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-61","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.im.2004.09.001"},{"key":"ijitbag.2014070104-62","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/TEM.2007.893989"}],"container-title":["International Journal of IT\/Business Alignment and Governance"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.igi-global.com\/viewtitle.aspx?TitleId=120026","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,9]],"date-time":"2020-06-09T18:39:04Z","timestamp":1591727944000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/services.igi-global.com\/resolvedoi\/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018\/ijitbag.2014070104"}},"subtitle":[""],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2014,7]]},"references-count":63,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2"},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4018\/ijitbag.2014070104","relation":{},"ISSN":["1947-9611","1947-962X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1947-9611","type":"print"},{"value":"1947-962X","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2014,7]]}}}