Re-reengineering the dream: Agility as competitive adaptability

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 101-115

  McLay, Allan ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Collaboration; Competition; Disruptive technological change; Manufacturing; Paradigm change; Reengineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929163628     PISSN: 17419174     EISSN: 17419182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJASM.2014.061430     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Arnold, H.M. (2003) Technology Shocks: Origins, Managerial Responses, and Firm Performance, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg.
2. Beernaert, D. (2012) Foreword, in European Commission (2012) ICT and Factories of the Future: Results of the First Two Calls for Proposals, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxemburg [online] http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/micro-nanosystems/docs/ict-and-factories-of-the-future-2012.pdf (accessed 30 January 2013).
3. Bower, J.L. and Christensen, C.M. (1995) 'Disruptive technologies: catching the wave', Harvard Business Review, January-February, pp.43-53, Harvard University, Greenwich, CT.
4. Cetindamar, D., Phaal, R. and Probert, D. (2010) Technology Management: Activities and Tools, Palgrave Macmillan, Basinstoke, Hamps.
5. Champy, J. (1995) Reengineering Management: The Mandate for New Leadership, HarperCollins Publishers, London.
6. Checkland, P. (1999) Soft Systems Methodology: A 30-Year Retrospective, Systems Thinking, Systems Practice, John Wiley, Chichester.
7. Christensen, C.M. (1997) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fall, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass.
8. Christensen, C.M. and Raynor, M.E. (2003) The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass.
9. Christiano, L.J., Eichenbaum, M. and Vigfusson, R. (2003) What Happens After Technology Shock?, NBER Working paper No. 9819, July, National Bureau of Economic Research [online] http://www.nber.org/papers/w9819 (accessed 15 August 2013).
10. Coakes, E. (2002) 'Knowledge management: a sociotechnical perspective', chapter in Coakes, E. Willis, D. and Clarke, S. (Eds.): Knowledge Management in the Socio Technical World: The Graffiti Continues, Springer-Verlag, London.
11. Coakes, E. and Clarke, S. (2011) 'An introduction to communities of practice', in Schwartz, D. and Te'eni, D. (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, 2nd ed., Chapter 46, pp.482-488, IGI Global.
12. Constant, E.W. (1984) 'As attributed', in Gutting, G. (Ed.): Paradigms, Revolutions, and Technology, chapter in Lauden, R. (Ed.): The Nature of Technological Knowledge: Are Models of Scientific Change Relevant?, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht.
13. D'Aveni, R.A. and Gunther, R.E. (1995) Hyper-competitive Rivalries: Competing in Highly Dynamic Environments, Free Press, New York.
14. Dedola, L. and Neri, S. (2006) What Does a Technology Shock Do? A VAR Analysis with Model-Based Sign Restrictions, Working paper Series No. 705, December, European Central Bank, Frankfurt [online] http:/www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp705.pdf (accessed 15 August 2013).
15. Department of Business and Innovation (2011) A More Competitive Manufacturing Industry: New Directions for Industry Policy and Manufacturing, Victorian State Government, Melbourne.
16. DIISRTE (2012) Prime Minister's Manufacturing Taskforce: Report of the Non-Government Members, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra.
17. Dosi, G. (1982) 'Technological paradigms and technological trajectories', Research Policy, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.147-162.
18. European Commission (2012) ICT and Factories of the Future: Results of the First Two Calls for Proposals, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxemburg [online] http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/micro-nanosystems/docs/ict-and-factories-of-the-future-2012.pdf (accessed 30 January 2013).
19. Fifth BRICS Summit 2013 (2013) Fifth BRICS Summit Durban South Africa 2013 [online] http//www.brics5.co.za (accessed 30 January 2013).
20. Geels, F.W. (2005) Technological Transitions and System Innovations, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham.
21. Geels, F.W. and Schot, J. (2007) 'Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways', Research Policy, Vol. 36, pp.399-417 [online] http://community.eldis.org/.5ad501d7/Geels%20and%20Schot%20RP%202007%20pathways.pdf (accessed 16 August 2013).
22. Hamel, G. and Prahalad, C.K. (1990) 'The core competence of the corporation', Harvard Business Review, May/June, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp.79-91.
23. Hamel, G. and Prahalad, C.K. (1994) Competing for the Future, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass.
24. Hammer, M. (1996) Beyond Reengineering: How the Process-Centred Organization is Changing Our Work and Our Lives, HarperBusiness, New York.
25. Hammer, M. and Champy, J. (1993) Re-engineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution, HarperBusiness, New York.
26. Hernáez, O.R. and Campos, E.B. (2011) Handbook of Research on Communities of Practice for Organizational Management and Networking: Methodologies for Competitive Advantage, Business Science Reference, Hershey, PA.
27. Hitt, M.A., Ireland, R.D. and Hoskisson, R.E. (2011) Strategic Management: Competitiveness & Globalization, 9th Ed., South-Western CENGAGE Learning, Mason OH.
28. Johnson, G., Whittington, R. and Scholes, K. (2011) Exploring Strategy, 9th ed., Pearson Education Limited, Harlow.
29. Kim, W.C. and Mauborgne, R. (2004) 'Blue ocean strategy', Harvard Business Review, October, Vol. 82, No. 10, pp.76-83.
30. Kim, W.C. and Mauborgne, R. (2005) Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, Harvard Business School Press, Boston.
31. Kuhn, T. (1962) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
32. Lencioni, P. (2006) Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable about Destroying the Barriers that Turn Colleagues into Competitors, Joffey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.
33. McGrath, R.G. (2013) The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Stragegy Moving as Fast as Your Business, Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston.
34. Nalebuff, B.J. and Brandenburger, A.M. (1997) 'Coopetition: competitive and cooperative business strategies for the digital economy', Strategy and Leadership, November-December, Vol. 25, No. 6, p.28, Academic OneFile [online] http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid =1697288&show=abstract (accessed 15 August 2013).
35. Nonaka, I. and Teece, D.J. (2001) Managing Industrial Knowledge: Creation, Transfer and Utilization, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.
36. Porter, M.E. (1979) 'How competitive forces shape strategy', Harvard Business Review, March-April, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp.137-145.
37. Porter, M.E. (1980) Competitive Strategy, The Free Press, New York.
38. Porter, M.E. (1985) Competitive Advantage, The Free Press, New York.
39. Rogers, E. (2003) Diffusion of Innovations, 5th ed., Free Press, New York.
40. Schumpeter, J. (1950) Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 3rd ed., Harper & Rowe, New York.
41. Smith, A. (1776) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Strahan & Cadell, London.
42. Tidd, J. and Bessant, J. (2013) Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change, 5th ed., John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
43. Toffler, A. (1985) The Adaptive Corporation, McGraw-Hill Book Company, London.
44. Trappey, A. and Trappey, C. (2010) 'Advances in aligning knowledge systems, improving business logistics, driving innovation and adapting customer centric services', Expert Systems with Applications, November, Vol. 37, No. 11, pp.7297-7298, Elsevier.
45. Turnbull, D. (1991) Technoscience Worlds, Deakin University, Geelong.
46. White, A. and Bessant, J. (2007) 'Managerial responses to cognitive dissonance: causes of the mismanagement of discontinuous technological innovations', in Hashem Sherif, M. and Khalil, T. (Eds.): Management of Technology: New Directions in Technology Management, Elsevior, Kidlington Oxon.
47. Wray, F (Ed.) (2012) ICT Innovation for the Factories of the Future: Report from the Workshop on 'ICT Innovation for the Factories of the Future, 10 July, European Commission, Brussels http://cordis.europa.ey/fp7/ict/micro-nanosystems/docs/report-from-workshop-on-ict-innovation-for-the-factories-of-the-future.pdf (accessed 30 January 2013).