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Purpose As businesses keep investing substantial resources in developing business analytics (BA) capabilities, it is unclear how the performance improvement transpires as BA affects performance in many different ways. This paper aims to analyze how BA capabilities affect firms’ agility through resources like information quality and innovative capacity considering industry dynamism and the resulting impact on firm performance. Design/methodology/approach This paper tested the research hypothesis using primary data collected from 192 companies operating in Bangladesh. The data were analyzed using partial least squares-based structural equation modeling. Findings The results indicate that BA capabilities improve business resources like information quality and innovative capacity, which, in turn, significantly impact a firm’s agility. This paper also found out that industry dynamism moderates the firms’ agility and, ultimately, firms’ performance. Practical implications The contribution of this work provides insight regarding the role of business analytics capabilities in increasing organizational agility and performance under the moderating effects of industry dynamism. Originality/value The present research is to the best of the authors’ knowledge among the first studies considering a firm’s agility to explore the impact of BA on a firm’s performance in a dynamic environment. While previous researchers discussed resources like information quality and innovative capability, current research theoretically argues that these items are a leveraging point in a BA context to increase firm agility.

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Direct-write lines deposited on polyimide substrates using silver nanoparticle inks were laser-sintered and compared with similar samples sintered on a hot plate. The lines—30- to 60-μm wide, about 2.4 mm long, and less than a micrometer thick—were laser-sintered by scanning the fundamental wavelength of a continuous-wave Nd:YAG laser along the line. Deposited energy was varied by changing the laser power in addition to the scanning speed, and the resulting bulk resistivity was measured to determine the unsintered, transitional, sintered, and peel-off energy per volume of nanoparticle ink ranges. The bulk resistivity reported was comparable to or better than typical screen-printed conductors, and the elemental composition suggested no thermal damage of the substrate.