Building IT Infrastructure for Strategic Agility

By Peter Weill, M. Subramani, M. Broadbent. 2002

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A Process-Oriented Perspective on the Alignment of Information Technology and Business Strategy (2007, background): “A ﬂexible, adaptable IT infrastructure can be especially important to sustaining alignment in areas that are vulnerable to market change or that are under competitive assault [81, 83].”
Types of Information Technology Capabilities and Their Role in Competitive Advantage: An Empirical Study (2005, background): “…r o c e ss and c on t en t c o m ponen t s . t he bu s i ne ss p l an i s r e l a t ed t o c o m pe t i t i v e ad v an t age . ability to share information across different functions, innovate, and exploit business opportunities, and the flexibility to respond to changes in business strategy [79].”
Leveraging Information Technology Infrastructure to Facilitate a Firm's Customer Agility and Competitive Activity: An Empirical Investigation (2012, background): “Scholars have argued that a well-crafted It infrastructure may contribute to the organization’s ability to sense and respond to environmental change [105].”
Review: IT-Dependent Strategic Initiatives and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature (2005, background): “Strategic IS research has been recently invigorated by the agility perspective (Sambamurthy et al. 2003; Weill et al. 2002) and the role that IT plays in enabling the firm to “launch many and varied competitive actions” (Sambamurthy et al. 2003, p. 237).”
IT capability and organizational performance: the roles of business process agility and environmental factors (2014, background): “A; 4Department of Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, P.R. China; 5Department of Finance and Decision Sciences, School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, P.R. China”
Enterprise agility and the enabling role of information technology (2006, methodology): “The term ‘agile’ is commonly used to describe firms that are able to adapt to and perform well in rapidly changing environments (Dove, 2001; Weill et al ., 2002; Sambamurthy et al ., 2003; Gartner, 2004).”
Understanding the Link Between Information Technology Capability and Organizational Agility: An Empirical Examination (2011, background): “Boundary-spanning IT infrastructure services such as firm-wide applications, databases, and common systems are essential to quickly implement extensive, innovative, and radical process changes and best support demand-side initiatives (Broadbent et al. 1999b; Weill et al. 2002).”
Gaining Agility through IT Personnel Capabilities: The Mediating Role of IT Infrastructure Capabilities (2007, background): “The strategic value of IT infrastructure has generally been associated with its ability to allow a firm to adapt successfully to changes in the external environment (Broadbent et al., 1999; Byrd and Turner, 2001b; Weill et al., 2002).”