Businesses fight to create an agile organizational system since it requires the development of three empowering capacities: to make sense quickly, make determinations nimbly, and redeploy resources swiftly. While the study of tactical agility is of growing interest as a prime means of organizational increase, the manners by which key mechanisms of growth including mergers and acquisitions (M&As) help in building this capacity stay evasive.
This case article present dissimilarities between the platform procurements and bolt-on acquisitions (most bolt-on acquisitions in the high technology industries can further be dissected into the product procurements on one hand, and educational, technological and/or talent procurements on other hand). These different forms of acquisitions can enhance strategic agility in distinct ways along different time horizons.
Acquisitions can enhance the gradual accumulation of the capacities underlying tactical agility when properly handled. This short article presents a more elaborate image of a nonlinear strengthening dual path between tactical agility and M&As.
PUBLICATION DATE: May 30, 2014 PRODUCT #: CMR566-HCB-ENG
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