Organizational Agility has been discussed during SAS-065 NATO NEC Command and Control Maturity Model development, the Exploratory Team on C2 Agility, and other similar research efforts. In these contexts, agility is being defined as the ability to recognize changes in situation complexity and move quickly to the most appropriate C2 approach (edge, collaborative, coordinated, or de-conflicted). ...

The objective of this study is to examine why and under what situations certain information technology resources can generate positive organizational outcomes. To achieve this, we adopt the organizational capability perspective. Based on this perspective, IT can be viewed as a functional capability that forms highlevel dynamic capability in the copresence of other functional capabilities and re...

Organizational agility, defined as the ability of organizations to sense and respond to market opportunities and threats with speed and surprise, is quickly becoming the hallmark of companies that consistently emerge as leaders in hypercompetitive environments. While explaining the role of IT, this paper argues that in order to be agile firms must be electronically integrated internally (with o...

An increasing number of firms are offshoring information systems (IS) services to developing countries because of the high availability of inexpensive information technology talents. The IS outsourcing can largely reduce human resource costs and increase business agility. Managerial, social and assessment factors have a strong influence on the accomplishment of business agility. This study prop...

Information systems (IS) development is becoming increasingly more geographically dispersed. Although process rigor, process standardization, and process agility are generally believed to have a positive impact on software development, it has not been well understood how these process capabilities affect distributed IS development. More important, no prior research has investigated their intera...

Today the concept of agility has become popular and is still growing in popularity in the management and technology literatures. How do we really define an agile information system? How do we know if an information system is agile? And how do we evaluate the agility in the context of enterprise information systems? This paper tries to answer some of these questions. It precisely aims to present...

The impact of enterprise systems (ES) on organisational agility (OA) is an under-researched area. Given the trends that most large organisations are moving towards ES and investing heavily on ES infrastructure and the increasing demand for agility, lack of research on ES and OA is a critical oversight. Using insights from the resource based view and dynamic capability theories; this paper argue...

manufacturing industries of agricultural products, which constitute a considerable part of different countries’ economies, are seeking new profitable opportunities by increasing competition at the international level. organizational agility is new method and philosophy of production that seeks to react effectively to the variable and unpredictable environment and to utilize the changes as chanc...