An AHP Model towards an Agile Enterprise

Companies are facing different challenges in order to adapt to their environmental context. They should be aware of the changes on the social, political, ecological and economical levels. Moreover, they should act in an efficient and rapid manner by leveraging new and reconfigurable resources. Organizational agility is the firm’s key dynamic capability which enables it to deal with changes and exploit them as opportunities. Firms’ objective is thus to attain a higher degree of agility which can help them to perform durably. In this article, a new model based on analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method is proposed. This can help companies to raise their agility level by deploying the most suitable agility enablers which can be either general or specific when related to information technologies. They can thus develop the most appropriate strategy towards agility regarding their internal and external contexts. Keywords—Organizational agility; analytical hierarchy process; information technology; agility enablers