Influence of Agility on the Innovation Capability of Organizations – A Systematic Review of Influencing Factors

Abstract

The increasing dynamization of markets, changing customer requirements and unpredictable occurrences pose new challenges for product development and design. Agile methods and processes can serve as a solution to secure the innovation capability of organizations in this environment. Since the areas of agility and innovation capability of organizations have mostly been treated separately in research, this research effort is focusing at hollistically collecting success factors for agility and success factors for the innovation capability of organizations and analyzing them in detail - including collecting indicators and directional characteristics. The analyzed factors are specifically focused on the development of mechatronic products and are intended to serve as a type of library that enables organizations and researchers to understand their own situation as best as possible, select appropriate recommendations for action in a targeted manner, and track their implementation / operationalization on the basis of the corresponding indicators and characteristics. This research work thus makes a contribution to sustainably increasing innovation capability and agility of industrial organizations.