Business agility and diffusion of information technology

European Journal of Information Systems (2006) 15, 116–119. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000610 While agility has recently attracted considerable attention in studies of systems development and management of information technology (IT), there is limited recognition within the information systems discipline of the important impact agility has already had on organizational studies in general. The extensive literature on agile development approaches has, for example, few or no links to the considerable literature on organizational agility that has developed since the Agility Forum was founded at Lehigh University in 1991 (Dove, 2001). The purpose of this special issue is to bridge this gap and to create a strong foundation for continued studies of the relationship between business agility and the diffusion of IT into organizational contexts. We believe this to be a timely purpose as organizations rebalance their IT infrastructure and portfolio of IT innovations in preparation for the future.