This paper maintains that efficient business agility requires actions from all levels of the organization in order to strive for success in a turbulent business environment. Agility and agile software development solutions are suggested as yielding benefit in a volatile environment, which is characterized by continuously changing requirements and unstable development technologies. Test-driven d...

M any sports performed on a court or on a field require high-speed total body movements. Many of these are in response to the motion of a ball, opposition players, or teammates. This important component of athletic performance may be described as agility, and it is sometimes grouped together with terms such as speed and quickness. The development of agility is often the responsibility of the st...

Why projects are late” is a fundamental issue in theory and in practice. One well established explanation is that a project’s network structure can be a significant factor—the “fatter” or more parallel the project, the later the project completion. Herein we show that a lack of agility, which may frequently arise in projects when there are external resources, can also be a significant factor in...

Regarding to the diversified needs of domestic and global customers and various products of domestic and global competitors, importance of agility in supply chain management becomes more important. Suppliers have to provide materials and essential resources of manufacturers in a short time without any lead time.In this research, we identified many criteria for agility in sanitation supply chain...

As businesses strive to respond to customer demand at an acceptable cost in the face of market turbulence and volatility, interest in supply chain agility as the ability to address such market uncertainties has grown. As a research in progress paper, we will examine the ways in which supply chain agility is enabled through IT-enabled information processing capabilities and advance prior work in...

Recent years increase in organizations’ dependence on information technology has ushered in changing roles for IT departments and IT governance alike. Instead of being primarily focused on the continuous and cost efficient maintenance and support of existing resources, there is a need for a more balanced take on IT Governance which calls for an ambidextrous approach. This involves an increased ...

This study examines the impact of RFID technology utilization on organizational agility in manufacturing firms. Data from a sample of 328 manufacturers were collected and the model was assessed following a structural equation methodology. Findings indicate that adoption of RFID technology utilization directly and positively impacts organizational agility which in turn directly and positively im...

Managing development of large and complex enterprise architectures is a key problem in enterprise engineering. Nowadays one of the breathtaking topics considering enterprise context is real-time system agility. The paper discusses an appropriate general architecture pattern and provides insights how dynamic process management environment could be made. We survey general enterprise software arch...

This study aimed to determine the relation between quantum management skills and organizational agility capabilities with the mediating role of organizational intelligence. The method of research was a descriptive and correlational based on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), and the statistical population consisting of all administrators from state universities of Isfahan in academic year 2015...