Agility is emerging as an important determinant of success and achieving sustained competitive advantage in hyper-competition. Whilst the digital natives are on the rise, ubiquitous technologies, networks and associated systems are increasingly weaving themselves into the very fabric of everyday life of both individuals and corporations. With a global shift towards “everywhere retailing”, ubiqu...

High-speed actions are known to impact soccer performance and can be categorized into actions requiring maximal speed, acceleration, or agility. Contradictory findings have been reported as to the extent of the relationship between the different speed components. This study comprised 106 professional soccer players who were assessed for 10-m sprint (acceleration), flying 20-m sprint (maximum sp...

Context: It is believed that agility in software process can bring benefits to software development and lead to economy of efforts when accommodate changes is needed. Objective: Assess pertinence and relevance of agility characteristics and agile practices for software processes. Method: From 18 agility characteristics and 17 agile practices applicable to software processes revealed through sys...

Agile software development methods have emerged in recent years and have become increasingly popular since the start of the century. While much research claims to study agile methods, the meaning of agility itself in software development is yet to be fully understood. Agility is viewed by some as the antithesis of plan, structure discipline and bureaucracy. This study aims to develop a better u...

As e-commerce offers new channels for companies to reach consumers, it also brings about significant challenges to the ability to response to customer changing needs, which is named “customer agility”. Both practitioners and researchers consider information management as a source of customer agility. Drawing on the information management literature, this research program attempts to propose an ...

The existing discourse on IT-enabled enterprise agility views the internal organizational processes of IT capability development and organizational learning as the primary means of attaining agility, but has neglected the new dynamics of competition in the present networked economy. As Digital Business Ecosystems (DBEs) may be crucial to enterprise agility for organizations engaged in intense, ...

Companies increasingly face turbulent and dynamic environments characterized by mostly unforeseeable changes. A viable strategy to survive in such environments is to strengthen organizational agility, which denotes the ability to quickly cope with continuous unanticipated change and to take advantage of opportunities in the environment. Serviceoriented architecture (SOA) accompanied by related ...

According to the hierarchical framework of organizational capabilities and the capability embeddedness view in dynamic capability theory, this study investigates how lower-order capabilities (i.e. knowledge management capability and information technology capability) influence higher-order capability (i.e. organizational agility), which finally lead to superior firm performance. Meanwhile, the ...

Firm agility is quickly becoming an essential capability for companies to effectively compete in hypercompetitive environments. At the same time, firms are using applications that enable close integration coupled with an increased ability to reconfigure processes. Such applications should manifest a balance between integration and reconfigurability. This is the concept of applications ambidexte...

This study develops a research model of how the technical, behavioral, and business capabilities of IT personnel are associated with IT infrastructure capabilities, and how the latter are associated with IT-dependent organizational agility, which is conceptualized as comprising IT-dependent system, information, and strategic agility. Analysis of crosssectional data collected from 293 IT manager...