It goes without saying that digital technologies have been forming an increasingly crucial component of companies’ value offerings in recent times. In many industries, this trend has led to converging markets, where traditional firms compete and collaborate with software startups. One central competitive factor these markets is the ability capitalize on options faster than competition. Prior re...

Although the organizational capability for agility in IT deployment is crucial to the attainment of enterprise agility, there is scant research on how the capability may be nurtured and leveraged to this end. As improvisation may be an important mechanism for attaining agility in IT deployment, we apply the literature on organizational improvisation to analyze the case of Chang Chun Petrochemic...

Customer service, corporate agility, speed, and efficiency are central to business performance in the modern world. Underpinning each of these concepts is a subtly different emphasis in the notion of business process – i.e., how the firm is organized. This paper explores issues associated with finding the right balance between standardization and evolution – allowing the firm to achieve organiz...

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...

‘‘Change’’ seems to be one of enterprises’ major characteristics in this new competitive era. Agile enterprise whereby an organization can change and adapt quickly to changing circumstances is increasingly viewed as a winning strategy. However, in embracing agile enterprise, there are important questions to be asked: what precisely is agility and how can it be measured? How can one assist in ac...

As a force that leads the era of rapid technology advances, integrating global economy and changing customer needs, enterprise agility has attracted extensive attention from academia. The purpose of this study is to take Haier information system (IS) development from China as a case study to systematically research the process, reasons and characteristics of IS-enabled enterprise agility based ...

During 21st century, manufacturing success and survival are becoming more difficult to ensure this fact is originated in the emergency of new business era that has "change" as one of its major characteristics. Change in business environment and uncertainly have entered management study and research for the last two decades. Agility enhances the organization ability to provide high quality produ...

Context: It is believed that agility in software processes can bring benefits to software development and lead to an economy of efforts when accommodating 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 thro...

Agile software process may become one of the most rational development patterns in global economic environment to assist software enterprise to make rapid response to the market. This paper proposes a method to measure agility in software process using goal-driven techniques and balanced scorecard. Using this method, we design a set of representative agility metrics for measuring agility in sof...

Knowledge creation has emerged as a critical area in information systems research in the past decade (Nonaka 1994). However, the mechanism through which knowledge creation enhances firm performance remains unclear. This paper examines the role of organization agility as a mediator between knowledge creation processes and firm performance. Our survey study of 134 firms indicates that two forms o...