FARSYS: a knowledge-based system for managing strategic change
Decision Support Systems - Special issue on decision support in strategic management
How to win customers in the digital world: total action or fatal inaction
How to win customers in the digital world: total action or fatal inaction
European Journal of Information Systems
The role of dynamic capabilities in e-business transformation
European Journal of Information Systems - Managing e-business transformation
Exploring the relationship between information technology and business process reengineering
Information and Management
Toward a conceptual framework of agile methods: a study of agility in different disciplines
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Interdisciplinary software engineering research
Strategic aspirations for net-enabled business
European Journal of Information Systems
Enterprise agility and the enabling role of information technology
European Journal of Information Systems - Including a special section on business agility and diffusion of information technology
Smart Business Networks
Enterprise agility and the enabling role of information technology
European Journal of Information Systems - Including a special section on business agility and diffusion of information technology
Organizing IT to promote agility
Information Technology and Management
The relationship between organizational culture and the deployment of agile methods
Information and Software Technology
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Analysis of RFID technology usage for luggage management in the airline industry
International Journal of Information Technology and Management
Banks and information technology: marketability vs. relationships
Electronic Commerce Research
The Impact of SOA Implementation on IT-Business Alignment: A System Dynamics Approach
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Global Information Management
Developing Organizational Agility through IT and Supply Chain Capability
Journal of Global Information Management
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The current highly dynamic business environment requires businesses to be agile. Business agility is the ability to swiftly and easily change businesses and business processes beyond the normal level of flexibility to effectively manage unpredictable external and internal changes. This study reports on a cross-industry analysis of change factors requiring agility and assesses agility gaps that companies are facing in four industry sectors in the Netherlands. A framework was constructed to measure the perceived gaps between the current level of business agility and the required level of business agility. The questionnaire and in-depth interviews held reveal that today's businesses perceive to lack the agility required to quickly respond to changes, whose speed and requirements are difficult to predict. The paper presents rankings of generic and sector-specific agility gaps. These show that although some generic change factors requiring agility exist, the change factors requiring agility that cause agility gaps differ across industry sectors. Among the factors that enable or hinder business agility, the existence of inflexible legacy systems is perceived to be a very important disabler in achieving more business agility. A number of basic principles and directions are discussed to transform Information Technology from barrier into key enabler for increased agility in organizations and business networks.