Organizational readiness/preparedness

Abstract

The Internet and Information Technology (IT) are being used in many ways to bring benefits and to increase competitiveness to businesses and public sector organizations. Implementing innovations in an organization is a dynamic and continuous process. This chapter discusses factors and elements fundamental for overcoming business challenges that most of the organizations are facing during successful implementation of an IT initiative within an organization. However, in order for systems to be prepared for change in terms of organizational readiness, organization needs to assess and plan their organizational readiness. It will be also presented how to assess an organization's readiness for success and how to put together an organizational readiness plan. © 2011, IGI Global.