PURPOSE To study the validity of a video-based reactive agility test in Australian footballers. METHODS 15 higher performance, 15 lower performance, and 12 nonfootballers completed a light-based reactive agility test (LRAT), a video-based reactive agility test (VRAT), and a planned test (PLAN). RESULTS With skill groups pooled, agility time in PLAN (1346 ± 66 ms) was significantly faster (P...

Companies are facing different challenges in order to adapt to their environmental context. They should be aware of the changes on the social, political, ecological and economical levels. Moreover, they should act in an efficient and rapid manner by leveraging new and reconfigurable resources. Organizational agility is the firm’s key dynamic capability which enables it to deal with changes and ...

Agility is difficult to measure due to the vagueness of the concept. The overall problem of measurement is limited to three fundamental questions: what to measure? How to measure it? How to evaluate the results? Measurement of enterprise agility has been a major topic of research since the inception of agility in the early 90s. Some measurement methods have been developed; they mainly remain ti...

This article explores the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) journey to strategic agility through successively shifting three different alignments over last six decades suggests that logical incrementalism may be an unappreciated driver of this process. Three successive alignment models exhibit important shifts in technology strategy, competencies, values organization. The...

In today’s organisations senior managers have to cope with strategic environments characterised by high levels of uncertainty, volumes of information, and shifting business models. As a consequence, their individual strategic expertise may not be sufficient to help the organisation chart its way through this environment. Many talk about the need for organisational agility in this environment. O...

Although the relationship of information technology (IT) capability and knowledge capability with organizational agility has been documented, limited information is available on the extent to which these two capabilities affect organizational agility. Attempts to understand the effect of IT and knowledge capability on organizational agility in the presence of contextual factors have also been f...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is now considered a mainstream option for delivering solutions which promise business agility benefits. Unfortunately, there is currently no quantitative approach for predicting the expected agility of a SOA system under development. In this paper we present an empirically validated Predicted Business Agility Index (PBAI) which is designed to measure the expe...

Recent research indicates that higher ERP assimilation in organizations positively influences organizational agility, and that the dynamic capability of systems agility moderates the effects of ERP assimilation on agility. In this paper, we extend this research, to investigate the organizational competencies under which enterprise systems influence organizational agility. We propose a theoretic...

In turbulent environments, business agility, which is the ability of firms to sense environmental changes and respond to them timely, is an important antecedent of long-term firm success. We introduce business agility as a construct consisting of sensing and responding dimensions reflected by market, network, and operational agility. Here, we explicate the underlying capabilities, drivers, and ...

In traditional IT environment, there is a constant pressure of cost reduction. Unpredictable demands, rapid changes in technologies, complex IT portfolios and acquisitions, increased business competition, and revenue demands are the main factors which have compelled organizations to look for better alternatives. There is little automation and considerable amount of effort goes into resource pro...