Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) customization is a major source of concern for organizations implementing or using ERP systems. Customization has been used to explain implementation failures for years. However, the question of which types of customization have negative effects and which types of customizations have positive effects has not been fully explored. Case studies show that lack of ...

In pursuit of flexibility and agility within discrete manufacturing, the surrounding logistics and handling processes of a paint shop is under construction as a laboratory prototype application. Holonic Manufacturing seems to be a promising strategic paradigm and architecture to use for a system characterised by production logistics and control. This paper describes the physical devices to be u...

This article looks at the relationship between the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and organizations agility requirements. The concept of IT infrastructure agility has captured the attention of researchers and practitioners. Although the importance of IT infrastructure agility has been established, the development of a valid, reliable instrument to measure this construct has not been...

Abstract Strategic agility is a topic that has not reached maturity and of increasing interest for companies academics alike. Yet few studies assess what drives strategic in organisations. This paper aims to review how are currently obtaining identify the individual factors configurations lead it. The study draws on survey carried out with 40 Spanish services sector. then uses Qualitative Compa...

Research has linked the ability to partner and use alliances as a competitive tool as a critical component of agility. Companies that are able to quickly couple and uncouple themselves with other entities as needed demonstrate agile characteristics of reconjigurability, modulari~ and scalability. The case presented demonstrates these agile characteristics as well as methods employed to reach th...

To achieve strategic advantage in increasingly turbulent environments, it is vital for organizations to draw faster conclusions out of changing circumstances. As most decisions today are based on data collected by Information Systems, the IS itself must become more adaptable. This is particularly challenging in the domain of Business Intelligence since the underlying architectural approach of e...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role a public sector organization’s perceived strategic agility in relation employee outcomes times crisis. While need for organizational acknowledged as boosting performance, its value and application employees are unknown, especially during crisis context. We use survey-based quantitative methodology capture employees’ perceptions (n = 546...

There is a growing use of business intelligence (BI) for better management decisions in different industries. However, empirical studies on BI are still scarce in academic research. This research investigates BI from an organizational agility perspective. Organizational agility is the ability to sense and respond to market opportunities and threats with speed. Drawing on systems theory and lite...

While there are separate streams of established research on lean production, agile organization, and sustainable supply chain, the idea is to address the intersection of these three strategic initiatives in order to find synergies and competitive advantage for companies. The goal of the mission is to explore the link between supply chain and sustainable development with the insights of two main...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a system paradigm that structures business functions as loosely coupled services to enable business agility. SOA requires significant up-front investments, and in return, promises a vast array of benefits. Unfortunately, in contrast to the costs of the investment, monetary benefits associated with SOA are more difficult to measure. For one reason, benefits...