This article looks at the relationship between the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and organizations agility requirements. The concept of IT infrastructure agility has captured the attention of researchers and practitioners. Although the importance of IT infrastructure agility has been established, the development of a valid, reliable instrument to measure this construct has not been...

This research explores how the cloud’s technological capability helps small and medium enterprises (SMEs) adapt to challenging business environments, providing long-term sustainability strategic agility. The article uses a theoretical quantitative empirical approach, known as positivist paradigm, in offering unique called dynamic cloud that leverages capabilities. Based on analysis of 222 Austr...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the key challenges experienced and lessons learned when organizations undergo large-scale agile transformations seeks answer question of how incumbent firms achieve agility at scale. Design/methodology/approach Building on a case study multinational corporation seeking scale up agility, authors combined 36 semistructured interviews with secondary data from org...

This study posits that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) enables supply chains (SCs) to dynamically react volatile environments, and alleviate potentially costly decision-makings for small-medium enterprises (SMEs). Building on a resource-based view, this work examines impact AI SC risk management SMEs. A structural model comprising AI-risk capabilities, re-engineering capabilities chain ...

Purpose Increasingly, studies are reporting supply chain analytical capabilities as a key enabler of agility (SCAG) and performance (SCP). This study investigates the impact environmental dynamism competitive pressures in analytics setting, how intangible (ISCAC) moderate relationship between big data characteristics (BDC's) SCAG support enhanced SCP. Design/methodology/approach The draws on li...

Abstract Strategic agility is a topic that has not reached maturity and of increasing interest for companies academics alike. Yet few studies assess what drives strategic in organisations. This paper aims to review how are currently obtaining identify the individual factors configurations lead it. The study draws on survey carried out with 40 Spanish services sector. then uses Qualitative Compa...

Received: 18 May 2005 Revised: 19 June 2005 Accepted: 9 January 2006 Abstract The current highly dynamic business environment requires businesses to be agile. Business agility is the ability to swiftly and easily change businesses and business processes beyond the normal level of flexibility to effectively manage unpredictable external and internal changes. This study reports on a crossindustry...

The aim of this article is to discuss the merits of organizational learning agility as it relates to organizational leadership, organizational culture, and the mindset and behavior of the organization. An extensive definition of agility and its importance is presented as a precursor to individual learner agility, leadership agility, and organizational agility. This paper outlines the characteri...