Ambidexterity refers to an organization’s ability to pursue disparate things at the same time. Much research discusses the relationship between organizational success and the ability to balance and mix exploitation and exploration simultaneously (i.e. having a joint focus on the present and the future) [1], and IT may in this regard be significant [2,3].   

References

1. Reflections on the 2013 decade award: "Exploitation, exploration, and process management: The productivity dilemma revisited" ten years later
2. How information technology influences opportunity exploration and exploitation firm's capabilities
3. The "third hand": IT-enabled competitive advantage in turbulence through improvisational capabilities

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