Chapter 2 Agile cognition and the age of transformation

Lennart Nørreklit

DOI: 10.4324/9781003188728-3

Dilemma and challenge

IT and transformation

This section addresses the challenge of transformational change and the idea of an agile response. The IT revolution transforms the actor–world relational systems. It has accelerated the change of human relations – family, work, and political relations, so that they are turning into something different from what they used to be. We are entering a society in continuous transformation that was unimaginable a few decades ago, very much caused by the power of IT. There have always been changes that involved transition from one state to a different one, and some of these changes create real ...

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