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...

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 ...

Agility is a theme which arises in relation to a range of endeavours in the military and the non-military world, appearing either in accounts of practical experience or in statements of aspirations. Concepts of agility have recently been surveyed in the course of an ongoing study of C2 agility conducted for the UK MOD. Whilst the accounts presented of agility differ widely, common to all of the...

Running agility is required for many sports and other physical tasks that demand rapid changes in body direction. Quantifying agility skill remains a challenge because measuring rapid changes of direction and quantifying agility skill from those measurements are difficult to do in ways that replicate real task/game play situations. The objectives of this study were to define and to measure agil...

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...

The purpose of the study was to determine if six weeks of plyometric training can improve an athlete's agility. Subjects were divided into two groups, a plyometric training and a control group. The plyometric training group performed in a six week plyometric training program and the control group did not perform any plyometric training techniques. All subjects participated in two agility tests:...

This paper introduces a unified theoretical model of organizational agility and investigates the attributes of knowledge-intensive work-design systems, which contribute to achieving and sustaining organizational agility. Even though there has been considerable research on the topic of agility, these studies are not unified regarding their conceptualizations of agility and/or tend to adopt fairl...