Agility-related terms
| Term | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Agile | “An umbrella term for a set of management practices—including Scrum, Kanban, and Lean—which enable offering requirements and solutions to evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams” | Denning (2016, p. 11) |
| Agility | “The ability of organizations to be quick and to have an effective response to unexpected variations in market demand” | Prange (2021, p. 3) |
| Organizational agility | “The ability to function and compete within a state of dynamic, continuous and often unanticipated change” | Appelbaum et al. (2017, p. 7) |
| Organizational agility | “A firm's capacity to respond with speed to environmental changes and opportunities and define it in terms of three dimensions: customer responsiveness, operational flexibility and strategic flexibility” | Ravichandran (2018, p. 25) |
| Organizational agility | “The capacity of an organization to efficiently and effectively redeploy and redirect its resources to value-creating (and capturing) higher-yield activities as internal and external circumstances warrant” | Teece et al. (2016, p. 17) |
| Organizational agility | “A core competency, competitive advantage, and differentiator that requires strategic thinking, an innovative mindset, exploitation of change and an unrelenting need to be adaptable and proactive” | Harraf et al. (2015, p. 675) |
| Strategic agility | “A meta-capability that comprises the allocation of sufficient resources to the development and deployment of all specific capabilities, and further refers to the ability to stay agile through balancing those capabilities dynamically over time” | Shams et al. (2020, p. 2) |
| Strategic agility | “The ability to remain flexible in facing new developments, to continuously adjust the company's strategic direction, and to develop innovative ways to create value” | Weber and Tarba (2014, p. 5) |
| Strategic agility | “The ability to continuously adjust and adapt strategic direction in core business, as a function of strategic ambitions and changing circumstances, and create not just new product and services, but also new business models and innovative ways to create value for a company” | Vecchiato (2015, p. 29) |
| Enterprise agility | “The ability to adjust and respond to change” | Sherehiy et al. (2007, p. 445) |
| Corporate agility | “The capacity to react quickly to rapidly changing circumstances” | Brown and Agnew (1982, p. 29) |
| Term | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Agile | “An umbrella term for a set of management practices—including Scrum, Kanban, and Lean—which enable offering requirements and solutions to evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams” | |
| Agility | “The ability of organizations to be quick and to have an effective response to unexpected variations in market demand” | |
| Organizational agility | “The ability to function and compete within a state of dynamic, continuous and often unanticipated change” | |
| Organizational agility | “A firm's capacity to respond with speed to environmental changes and opportunities and define it in terms of three dimensions: customer responsiveness, operational flexibility and strategic flexibility” | |
| Organizational agility | “The capacity of an organization to efficiently and effectively redeploy and redirect its resources to value-creating (and capturing) higher-yield activities as internal and external circumstances warrant” | |
| Organizational agility | “A core competency, competitive advantage, and differentiator that requires strategic thinking, an innovative mindset, exploitation of change and an unrelenting need to be adaptable and proactive” | |
| Strategic agility | “A meta-capability that comprises the allocation of sufficient resources to the development and deployment of all specific capabilities, and further refers to the ability to stay agile through balancing those capabilities dynamically over time” | |
| Strategic agility | “The ability to remain flexible in facing new developments, to continuously adjust the company's strategic direction, and to develop innovative ways to create value” | |
| Strategic agility | “The ability to continuously adjust and adapt strategic direction in core business, as a function of strategic ambitions and changing circumstances, and create not just new product and services, but also new business models and innovative ways to create value for a company” | |
| Enterprise agility | “The ability to adjust and respond to change” | |
| Corporate agility | “The capacity to react quickly to rapidly changing circumstances” |
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