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...

Business agility has been studied by researchers since the beginning of 1990s. With the increased diffusion of information technology (IT) in business, IT is often been brought up as a factor pushing for agility as well as being a potential enabler for agility. As a result, IT organisations need not only to better understand business agility but also their own agility and their role in promotin...

The purpose of this study was to determine if straight sprint training transferred to agility performance tests that involved various change-of-direction complexities and if agility training transferred to straight sprinting speed. Thirty-six males were tested on a 30-m straight sprint and 6 agility tests with 2-5 changes of direction at various angles. The subjects participated in 2 training s...

PURPOSE To study the validity of a video-based reactive agility test in Australian footballers. METHODS 15 higher performance, 15 lower performance, and 12 nonfootballers completed a light-based reactive agility test (LRAT), a video-based reactive agility test (VRAT), and a planned test (PLAN). RESULTS With skill groups pooled, agility time in PLAN (1346 ± 66 ms) was significantly faster (P...

Companies are facing different challenges in order to adapt to their environmental context. They should be aware of the changes on the social, political, ecological and economical levels. Moreover, they should act in an efficient and rapid manner by leveraging new and reconfigurable resources. Organizational agility is the firm’s key dynamic capability which enables it to deal with changes and ...

Organizations have to sense and respond rapidly and flexibly to changes in their markets, in short: they have to be agile and this capability to be agile can be a source of competitive advantage. This research aims at (1) understanding the concept and definition of Agility; (2) exploring the impact of Agility on knowledge management in a company; (3) giving recommendations on how to manage Agil...

Agility is difficult to measure due to the vagueness of the concept. The overall problem of measurement is limited to three fundamental questions: what to measure? How to measure it? How to evaluate the results? Measurement of enterprise agility has been a major topic of research since the inception of agility in the early 90s. Some measurement methods have been developed; they mainly remain ti...

We propose a simple method to assess the number of subpopulations in multivariate data by projecting the data on its principal curve and then applying Silverman’s bandwidth test to the resulting univariate sample. Our results indicate that this method works well even in high-dimensional settings with relatively small sample sizes, provided that the number of subpopulations is not large compared...

Although the relationship of information technology (IT) capability and knowledge capability with organizational agility has been documented, limited information is available on the extent to which these two capabilities affect organizational agility. Attempts to understand the effect of IT and knowledge capability on organizational agility in the presence of contextual factors have also been f...