Analysis on MIS Flexibility via POC

Abstract

Today agile management can be realized given all of the following three kinds of quickness: a) quick recognition of an environmental change, b) quick decision-making on the countermeasures against the change, and c) quick implementation of the countermeasure chosen to cope with the change. In the recent business world the quickness of a) concerns information that an MIS deals with, the quickness of b) concerns use of the MIS for decision-making, and the quickness of c) concerns change of the MIS itself.

With a focus on c) above and assuming that flexibility is the core characteristic that an MIS should acquire to realize agile management, our study aims to clarify how MIS flexibility should be enhanced. With this aim in mind, we will survey the sources and types of MIS change demands, and we will consider in a structured way the characteristics that an MIS should have, such that they will conduce to its flexibility in dealing with these change demands. Having laid the groundwork mentioned so far, we will discuss practical methods to enhance MIS flexibility, and end by presenting our evaluation procedure for MIS flexibility.