The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of agility in an organizational setting -how a software development firm (SDF) developed, maintained and enhanced agility as it changed from a developer of experimental prototypes to a product-based provider. Qualitative approach based on extensive interviews and on-site observations at two points in time separated by a five-year interval. ...

Global competition and rapidly changing customer requirements afe forcing manufacturing enterprises to assume new production styles and configurations. Today, the agility has to concem not just operations and technology aspects but also organization: in this framework the concept of virtual organisation seems to be a new emerging paradigm to improve manufacturing firm competitiveness. Several r...

Agility metrics are difficult to define in general, mainly due to the multidimensionality and vagueness of the concept of agility itself. In this paper, a knowledge-based framework is proposed and presented as a candidate solution for the measurement and assessment of manufacturing agility. Given an enterprise, in order to calculate its overall agility, a set of quantitatively defined agility p...

Organizational agility – the ability to sense change and respond quickly – has been regarded as an important index of organizational performance in rapidly changing environments. However, agility research has overlooked the dynamics of the resource configuration process which covers resource selection, acquisition, development, and management. Prior studies mostly treated it as a ready starting...

Workforce agility has been considered as an important factor responding to the uncertain environment. However, current research on how to develop workforce agility remains unclear, so identifying the influencing factors for achieving workforce agility is needed. Based on the information processing view, we propose a model to examine how task conflict and relationship conflict affect workforce a...

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 objective of this thesis was to investigate business process agility and develop modeling approaches that ensure agility in business process design and execution. Business process agility is part of a broader agility issue, i.e. enterprise agility. The latter is a polymorphous concept that concerns all the aspect of an enterprise. Towards a comprehensive and systematic analysis of enterpris...