Purpose: Solutions development among several actors gives rise to a tension between stability, that is, the need to standardise and synchronise development activities, and agility, meaning the need to respond and adapt to a changing environment, which is represented, for example, in agile management practices. This study focuses on agile solutions development in an interorganisational context to investigate and characterise this agility-stability tension.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This study bases its insights on findings derived from two focus groups and interviews with managers and specialists within the area of study.
Findings: The findings show strong challenges deriving from the agility-stability tension. These can be organised in a typology of artefacts, roles, and processes.
Originality/Value: The results of this study contribute to the servitization literature on co-creation, solutions development, and agile management practices, by providing a novel understanding of the challenges arising in interorganisational solutions development through the identification and characterisation of the agility-stability tension.