 Flexible systems for changing organizations: implementing RADT Jones and S F King European Journal of Information Systems, 1998, vol. 7, issue 1, 61-73 Abstract: Rapid application development (RAD) promises to deliver high quality applications quickly. But the approach relies on close partnerships between IT staff and business users which may not be easy to achieve in the current climate of rapidly fragmenting organizations and, like all major innovations, RAD implementation must be managed carefully over an extended time period in order to become fully instutionalised. In this paper RAD implementation at two large UK organizations is described. One has failed to institutionalise RAD, the other has succeeded. The key lessons from this work are that even basic RAD tools and techniques can deliver benefits; that RAD implementors need to be given time to learn through experience of use; that a permanent methods group can help to stimulate RAD learning and act as a linking mechanism between successive information system (IS) development projects; that a RAD framework should be prescriptive and that an education programme which explains both the role of the information technology (IT) specialist and the business user should be pursued vigorously. Date: 1998 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:tjisxx:v:7:y:1998:i:1:p:61-73 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000289 Access Statistics for this article European Journal of Information Systems is currently edited by Par Agerfalk More articles in European Journal of Information Systems from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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