IT-менеджмент Управление ресурсами IT management Resource management ПРИКЛАДНАЯ ИНФОРМАТИКА / JOURNAL OF APPLIED INFORMATICS Том 10. № 6 (60). 2015 V. Nissen, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, volker.nissen@tu-ilmenau.de A. von Rennenkampff, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, mail.alexx@gmail.com Measuring and managing IT agility as a strategic resource — examining the IT application systems landscape A company’s ability to change increasingly depends on the ability to change its IT, something referred to as «IT agility» here. <...> High IT agility can contribute to increased business agility and thus create a competitive advantage. <...> Here, the focus is on the IT application systems landscape, a resource of significant importance for the IT agility and competitiveness of a company. <...> Keywords: IT agility, IS architecture metrics, enterprise architecture management, IT value contribution, design science research. 1. <...> IT-менеджмент Управление ресурсами only with great delays; in extreme cases some requirements are infeasible. 2. <...> These changes almost At the same time, IT penetration of the core business processes in companies in recent decades has increased continuously. <...> In nine of the fourteen most frequently mentioned aspects change and the ability to change the IT plays a key role, such as in the topics «Business Process Improvement» and «Supporting Business Change». <...> Despite this high practical relevance Gronau states, from a scientific perspective, that the adaptability of the IT architecture is treated in business informatics only to a small degree. <...> No. 6 (60). 2015 ПРИКЛАДНАЯ ИНФОРМАТИКА / JOURNAL OF APPLIED INFORMATICS mainly on the IT organization and not on the IT architecture [25, p. 217]. <...> Thus, both IT agility as well as the management of the IT application systems landscape represent current and relevant topics of business informatics. 2. <...> From the problems described the following research question is derived: How can the agility of the IT application systems landscape as an important part of the IT agility of a company be measured and actively Corporate Strategy Layer Organizational and Process Layer Integration Layer Soſtware Layer Infrastructure Layer Fig. 1. <...> Layer model of the enterprise architecture (adapted from [72, p. 9]) and location of the architecture of the IT application systems landscape [ 6 ] IT <...>