contributions of information technology capabilities through strategic Agility In strategic management

Abstract

The research aims to test the relationships between some of information technology capabilities as an independent variable, strategic agility as an moderated variable by appointment its dimensions (focus, speed and flexibility) in strategic change management as an dependent variable. In that frame, the researcher try to answer for the following questions: Are there a relationship and effect between some of information technology capabilities and strategic agility and strategic change management? In order to verification from the accuracy of that, the Asia cell company for telecommunication (Main branch-Sulaymania Province) selected as a field for the research, the research sample consist of (45) from all managers in the managerial and technical divisions and units, the research adopted the analytical descriptive method, the research used the questionnaire as a main tool of collect required data, these data was analyzed by using the SPSS program and some of statistical tools. The main conclusion of the research is about the appearance of the effect of information technology capabilities directly in strategic agility, that is plays the direct effect on strategic change management, beside that, there is indirect effect for the information technology capabilities in strategic change management, these conclusion accent the role of information technology capabilities in reached to strategic agility and possession the readiness to strategic change.