Business agility: Need, readiness and alignment with IT strategies

Agile Information Systems: Conceptualization, Construction, and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 52-69

  Van Oosterhout, Marcel ^a   Waarts, Eric ^a   Van Heck, Eric ^a   Van Hillegersberg, Jos ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84905063464     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780080463681     Document Type: Chapter

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