DevOps as a Catalyst for Digital Transformation: A Strategic Business Administration Framework for Resilient and Scalable Enterprises

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@article{1714495,
      author = {Olowo-Igbasan Gbemisola Adedoyin},
      title = {DevOps as a Catalyst for Digital Transformation: A Strategic Business Administration Framework for Resilient and Scalable Enterprises},
      journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
      year = {2024},
      volume = {8},
      number = {2},
      pages = {1226-1234},
      issn = {2456-8880},
      url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1714495.pdf},
      abstract = {DevOps has continued to attract interest as an organisational practice that can support digital transformation, but the literature on its strategic and organisational effects remains incomplete. This paper explores DevOps as a driver of digital transformation by integrating empirical evidence on its impact on organisational resilience and scalability. The study presents a focused integrative review strategy for analyzing selected empirical and empirically based studies, drawing on peer-reviewed literature across business administration, management, and information systems. The results indicate a pattern of findings that DevOps implementation is linked to improvements in operational performance, deployment time, system reliability, and organisational agility across sectors such as healthcare, energy, cloud-based systems, and enterprise systems. The synthesis also shows that Leadership commitment, cross-functional cooperation, and strategic alignment are the most effective when used together with DevOps to support digital transformation. The roles and governance structures of organisations, including the incorporation of business analysts into DevOps teams, are revealed to enhance the translation of technical practice into quantifiable business value. Moreover, maturity in DevOps is closely associated with resiliency outcomes such as shorter recovery times, less downtime, and greater scalability. This research adds to the business administration and management literature by summarising scattered empirical evidence and presenting DevOps as a strategic organisational capability rather than a technical methodology. The paper can provide practical advice to managers aiming to use DevOps to enable sustainable digital transformation, as well as to emphasise the need for future empirical studies, especially large-scale and longitudinal research on DevOps-enabled organisational performance.},
      keywords = {DevOps, Digital Transformation, Organisational Resilience, Scalability, Strategic Management, Business Administration},
      month = {August},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV8I2-1714495}
  }