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 ...

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...

Organizational agility is one of the top management concerns as organizations face today increasingly changing environments. Among enterprise architecture (EA) benefits, organizational agility has been claimed as one of them, perceived as a direct or indirect benefit, for example, through business-IT alignment, another top management concern. However, even with reasonable explanations in the EA...

Implementation agility in Manufacturing Systems (MS) is one of the most important objectives for nowadays MS considering the complexity of environment. The agility implementation implies new characteristics as well as new implications not considered by the previous MS concept. These are: the dynamic reconfigurability of MS structure (at the first place), the pro-activity, the emergence (as inhe...

Agile software development methods have emerged and become increasingly popular in recent years, yet the issues encountered by software development teams that strive to achieve agility using agile methods are yet to be explored systematically. Built upon a previous study that has established a set of indicators of agility, this study investigates what issues are manifested in software developme...

EFFECTIVE MOVEMENT IS A KEY ELEMENT OF ELITE SPORTS PERFORMANCE IN A RANGE OF SPORTS, AND AGILITY TRAINING HAS BECOME AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT IN MANY SPORTS PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMS. TRADITIONALLY, AGILITY TRAINING HAS FOCUSED ON THE EXECUTION OF CLOSED DRILLS THAT ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EFFECTIVE MOVEMENT PATTERS BUT MAY NOT OPTIMALLY TRANSFER DIRECTLY TO ENHANCED SPORTS PERFORMANCE...