  Digital disruption introduces technology-enabled changes at a pace and scale
that fundamentally shifts established ways in which we live and work. Given the
impact of digital disruption can span the individual, organisational, industry
and societal levels, it has received growing attention in Information Systems.
A less researched area of digital disruption, however, is the perspective of IT
managers in organisations. This paper draws on i) situational awareness theory
to identify IT managers' perceptions of digital disruption, and ii) disruptive
innovation theory to identify IT managers' responses to digital disruption. A
case study of senior IT managers in an Australian university identifies that IT
managers perceive digital disruption from the technological, learning and
sense-making perspectives. IT managers' first-order responses to digital
disruption were shown to address resource, process and value-based issues while
second-order responses focused on the need to build dynamic capabilities in
order to be prepared for future digital disruption.
