Past definitions of agility
| Enterprise agility | Ability of a firm to sense environmental change and react accordingly based on components of sensing and reacting to change |
| Dynamic Capabilities | “A firm’s building, integration, and reconfiguration of internal and external competencies to address rapidly changing environments” (Teece, Pisano, & Shuen, 1997) Extenuation of the Resource Based View into high-velocity markets |
| Strategic Flexibility | Defined as the organizational ability to manage economic and political risks by promptly responding in a proactive or reactive manner to market threats and opportunities (Battistella, De Toni, De Zan, & Pessot, 2017; Grewal & Tansuhaj, 2001) |
| Business Agility | Exemplified by organizations that are resourceful, quick to respond to changes, and highly adaptable (Mathiassen & Pries-Heje, 2006) |
| Operational Agility | “A company's capacity, within a focused business model, to find and seize opportunities to improve operations and processes” (Sull, 2010) |
| Portfolio Agility | “The ability to quickly and effectively shift resources, including cash, talent, and managerial attention, out of less-promising units and into more-attractive ones” (Sull, 2010) |
| Organizational agility | Capacity of an organization to efficiently and effectively redeploy/redirect its resources to value-creating and value protecting (and capturing) higher-yield activities as internal and external circumstances warrant (Teece et al., 1997) |
| Enterprise agility | Ability of a firm to sense environmental change and react accordingly based on components of sensing and reacting to change |
| Dynamic Capabilities | “A firm’s building, integration, and reconfiguration of internal and external competencies to address rapidly changing environments” ( |
| Strategic Flexibility | Defined as the organizational ability to manage economic and political risks by promptly responding in a proactive or reactive manner to market threats and opportunities ( |
| Business Agility | Exemplified by organizations that are resourceful, quick to respond to changes, and highly adaptable ( |
| Operational Agility | “A company's capacity, within a focused business model, to find and seize opportunities to improve operations and processes” ( |
| Portfolio Agility | “The ability to quickly and effectively shift resources, including cash, talent, and managerial attention, out of less-promising units and into more-attractive ones” ( |
| Organizational agility | Capacity of an organization to efficiently and effectively redeploy/redirect its resources to value-creating and value protecting (and capturing) higher-yield activities as internal and external circumstances warrant ( |
Source(s): Own elaboration