Agility is the ability of an organization to adapt to change and also to seize opportunities that become available due to change. While there has been much work and discussion of what agility is and how firms can become agile there is little work at measuring the agility of a firm. Measurement is necessary for the strategic planning of determining how much agility an organization currently poss...

BACKGROUND Agile concepts are not only beneficial for manufacturing sector but also for service sector such as healthcare. However, assessment of agility has been predominantly done in manufacturing enterprises. This study demonstrates a means to measure agility of a healthcare organization by assessing agility of a university dispensary. Its contribution to the knowledge base is twofold. First...

Agility at the individual business unit and organizational levels presents a challenge for many information system (IS) departments. Business unit agility demands the ability to sense and respond to changes in local competitive environments, whereas organizational agility demands the ability to sense broader market opportunities and respond with changes that are organization-wide. The former re...

O rganization design is a cornerstone of a firm’s competitive advantage and performance. Research is clear that even the most cunning strategy will not reach its potential if an organization’s structures, processes, and systems do not support it. However, the complexity, unpredictability, and instability of environmental change seem to have outpaced our traditional organization design approache...

introduction: to cope with novel changes, organizations must think beyond environmental compatibility and seek to take advantage of potential opportunities. a paradigm for this is the enhancement of organizational flexibility, speed, quality, and agility. human resources are the most important tool for enhancement of organizational agility and the most valuable asset of each organization and co...

Business agility has been studied by researchers since the beginning of 1990s. With the increased diffusion of information technology (IT) in business, IT is often been brought up as a factor pushing for agility as well as being a potential enabler for agility. As a result, IT organisations need not only to better understand business agility but also their own agility and their role in promotin...