Article history: Received 21 June 2013 Received in revised form 25 August 2014 Accepted 28 August 2014 Available online 18 September 2014 This paper explores the relationship between corporate foresight and the capability of the organization to respond successfully to external changes (i.e., strategic agility).More generally, we investigate the value that firms, facing growing uncertainty becau...

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...

A GIS (Geographic Information System), is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographically referenced data. In other words, GIS is the merging of statistical analysis, database technology and cartography that can be integrated into any enterprise information system framework. But despite all these advantages, geographic information system...

In the corporate use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), deployment of enterprise systems (ESs) technology in particular, has been the most vital development towards improving an organization's effectiveness. ESs make up the value chain of an enterprise allowing the organization to become significantly flexible and efficient. This paper investigates the use of ESs to increase agi...

Existing knowledge about agile manufacturing (AM) and an agile workforce was reviewed in order to extend the concept of agility to the whole enterprise. The frameworks that describe other elements of the enterprise besides manufacturing, or contain attributes that could be applied to all enterprise structures were also included into the review. The review identified a large number of papers rel...

Purpose: The aim of this article is to present the impact Economy 4.0 on development Teal organizations. It has been assumed here that every organization must adapt change by applying soft management factors (trust, knowledge, agility) in a changing reality. Methodology: During research, following work was carried out: desk individual in-depth interview, and questionnaire. study covered 300 res...

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...

(geographic) location and, consequently, contribute to the product and process quality. In that sense, it is supposed that application of virtual enterprise (VE) organizational principles contributes to the agility of the work teams, that is, to the concurrent engineering (CE) work teams, or team work, organization. With the objective to test the potential of virtual enterprise (VE) organizatio...

The interplay between organization practices and innovation is highly relevant in modern business. This paper analyses whether a specific organizational dimension, namely workforce agility, affects innovative performance. We rationalize this effect within an economics perspective that stresses the role of behavioural motives human attitudes process. In particular, we distinguish contribution tw...

Turbulence in the business environment imposed large companies or market leaders to become more agile doing business. Developing agility can be implemented many levels of organization. This paper proposes a multi-layer perspective construct by examining validity through structural equation modelling. Based on organizational behavior theory, this combining from three different perspectives agili...