Organizational agility is one of the top management concerns as organizations face today increasingly changing environments. Among enterprise architecture (EA) benefits, organizational agility has been claimed as one of them, perceived as a direct or indirect benefit, for example, through business-IT alignment, another top management concern. However, even with reasonable explanations in the EA...

Mass customization (MC) relates to the ability to provide individually designed products and services to every customer through high process flexibility and integration. For responding to the mass customization trend it is necessary to develop an agility-based manufacturing system to catch on the traits involved in MC. An MC manufacturing agility evaluation approach based on concepts of TOPSIS ...

The agility of organizations increasingly depends on their ability to set up new business processes or to modify existing ones in a dynamic manner, and rapidly adapt their information systems to these process changes. This paper propose a new agile business process management methodology, which is part of the a multidisciplinary research project – AGILe busIness PrOcess (AGILIPO). It is argued ...

Enterprises with transparent boundaries, decentralized organizational structure, and constantly increasing requirements on IT flexibility, is a novel generation of organizations of 2020s. This paper elaborates on how the Enterprise Architecture (EA) can better support such organizations. We analyze three types of organizational structure: centralized, federated and decentralized. First, we iden...

Organizations are constantly facing new challenges that require increasing response and adaptation capabilities. Seeking for agility and flexibility, companies have found in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) an alternative to integrate legacy systems with emerging technologies and put back the focus on the business by aligning processes and technology. In this article, we present a study abou...

Organizational agility is a key factor for survival and success in today’s global, interconnected and turbulent business environment. Mobile technology, due to its anywhere, anytime characteristics, can be a promising tool for enhancing organizational agility. Yet there are no studies that guide organizations in leveraging mobile technology for improving speed and responsiveness to market needs...