With increasing emphasis on avionics system rapid development and reduced cycle times, software architecting practices can be applied with agility to enhance evolving stakeholder concerns while sustaining long-term business goals. The Networked Common Operating Real-Time Environment (NCORE) software architecture for the Apache Longbow helicopter Mission Processor provides a case study to illust...

The prevalent competitive business environment has forced companies to devise strategies to survive. Strategic agility is one such business imperative companies require in the dynamic environment. Strategic agility is comprised of strategic sensitivity, strategic response and collective capabilities. Moreover, companies are collaborating in order to gain competitive advantage. This led to forma...

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine when and how organizations build big data analytics capability to improve supply chain agility and gain competitive advantage. Design/methodology/approachWe grounded our theoretical framework in two perspectives the dynamic capabilities view (DCV) and contingency theory (CT). To test our research hypotheses, we gathered 173 usable-responses using a...

For an organization to sustain in the dynamic environment today, agility has become a key solution in its survival struggle. In attaining agility capability the standard formula for an organization is to achieve high flexibility in responding to stimulus and change. From this perspective, we have found a unique case study in which a hospital has successfully implemented three healthcare IT syst...

In the turbulent and highly competitive environment, organizational agility (OA that is the ability of organizations to quickly sense and respond to environmental changes, is an important determinant of organization success. Pervasiveness of enterprise system (ES) implementation (e.g. CRM, ERP, SCM, etc.) which aims to integrate information resources in particular and organizational resources i...

Purpose This paper analyses the way that industry's competitive environment and company's strategy influence implementation of supply chain's (SC’s) triple-A capabilities (agility, adaptability alignment). Two variables are analysed: intensity industry complexity SC. opposing strategies also considered: cost differentiation. Design/methodology/approach The hypotheses have been tested using data...