MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Consider Culture When Implementing Agile Practices
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- Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Jongwoo Kim, Kannan Mohan, Lan Cao, Tabitha L. James
- MIT Sloan Management Review
- 2018
Teams can create balance between agile practices and local culture.
Agile practices help organizations bring products and services to market quickly and adapt nimbly to customer and market changes and innovations in the technology landscape. In today’s globalized economy, agile methods pioneered in the United States are being adopted in organizations worldwide.
One challenge to implementing agile practices globally is accommodating cultural differences.
About the Author
Balasubramaniam Ramesh is Distinguished University Professor and chair of the Computer Information Systems Department in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. Lan Cao is a professor of information technology in the Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University. Jongwoo Kim is an associate professor of management science and information systems in the College of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Kannan Mohan is a professor of information systems at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. Tabitha L. James is an associate professor of business information technology in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Consider Culture When Implementing Agile Practices