Digital Agility: Conceptualizing Agility for the Digital Era

Hannu Salmela, Abayomi Baiyere, Tommi Tapanainen, Robert D. Galliers

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Abstract

It goes without saying that digital technologies form an increasingly crucial component of companies’ value offerings in recent times. In many industries, this trend has led to converging markets, where traditional firms compete and collaborate with software firms and digital startups. One central competitive factor in these markets is the ability to capitalize on digital options faster than the competition. Prior research on agility in this context has advanced our knowledge on managerial and employee behaviors, and structures supporting such behaviors, to enable agility both in traditional and in software firms. The challenge for firms in digitally converging markets is that agility now requires a combination of organizational and IS development agility – perceiving these concepts as separate entities is no longer appropriate or instructive. Building on prior work on agile behaviors and structures, and published cases on digital firms, we develop an integrative conception of digital agility in line with the realities of the digital era.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of the Association for Information Systems
Vol/bind23
Udgave nummer5
Sider (fra-til)1080-1101
Antal sider22
ISSN1558-3457
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2022

Bibliografisk note

Published online: April 28, 2022

Emneord

  • Agility
  • Digital agility
  • Digital era
  • Theory building
  • Literature review

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