As a force that leads the era of rapid technology advances, integrating global economy and changing customer needs, enterprise agility has attracted extensive attention from academia. The purpose of this study is to take Haier information system (IS) development from China as a case study to systematically research the process, reasons and characteristics of IS-enabled enterprise agility based ...

Implementation agility in Manufacturing Systems (MS) is one of the most important objectives for nowadays MS considering the complexity of environment. The agility implementation implies new characteristics as well as new implications not considered by the previous MS concept. These are: the dynamic reconfigurability of MS structure (at the first place), the pro-activity, the emergence (as inhe...

Business agility is often claimed as one of the primary benefits of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). However neither this claim, nor the effect of individual SOA practices on business agility, has been empirically investigated in a systematic way. In this paper we explore the impact of architectural concerns, business process management, infrastructure support for impact analysis, loose co...

Agile software development methods have emerged and become increasingly popular in recent years, yet the issues encountered by software development teams that strive to achieve agility using agile methods are yet to be explored systematically. Built upon a previous study that has established a set of indicators of agility, this study investigates what issues are manifested in software developme...

European Journal of Information Systems (2006) 15, 116–119. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000610 While agility has recently attracted considerable attention in studies of systems development and management of information technology (IT), there is limited recognition within the information systems discipline of the important impact agility has already had on organizational studies in general. The e...

Agility is simply defined as the ability of an entity (system, organization, human, etc.) to quickly accommodate unanticipated changes in order to face threats of its environment. The need for Agility within e-government is mainly due to the permanent changes in the environment (political, societal, economical, technological, etc.) which in turn cause changes in the governments’ regulations and...