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Agility: The Key to Survival of the Fittest in the Software Market by Julie Smith David Arizona State University julie.smith.david@ William E. McCarthy Michigan State University mccarth4@ Brian S. Sommer B2B Analysts brian@ February 9, 2002 Text Word Count: 2,984 Agility: The Key to Survival of the Fittest in the Software Market Introduction The software industry and IT departments are facing extreme pressures to provide new applications that add value in todays competitive environment. Whereas in the 1990s companies concentrated on implementing systems that re-automated functions to provi