background: agility means ability to respond and react quickly and successfully to environmental changes. agility is an important factor for hospital effectiveness. agility in a hospital indicates the hospital's responsiveness when faced with internal and external changes. if hospitals are designed to be agile, they should have the ability to compete with other hospitals and provide appropriate...

nowadays, in turbulent and violate global markets an agile supply chain (asc) network is frequently considered as a dominant competitive advantage for survival. to achieve the competitive advantage, companies must align with suppliers and customers to streamline operations, as well as agility beyond individual companies. there are many definitions and models about agile supply chain and most of...

The aim of this study was to compare the physical fitness and quality of life related to the health of a sample population of older adult women from Spain and Serbia (60-69 years). A total of 127 female participants of physical fitness programs from Spain (64.33 ± 3.26) and Serbia (63.00 ± 2.88) have participated. Physical fitness (PF), quality of life (QoL) and sociodemographic characteristics...

PURPOSE Muslim athletes may continue training and competing while they are fasting. There is a concern about negative effects of fasting on sports performance. This study aimed to investigate the influence of two training time frames on athletes' body composition and performance during Ramadan fasting. METHODS An observational study was conducted and thirty four male volunteer athletes from d...

Agility is an important requirement for successful organizations in periods of market turbulence and unpredictable socio-economic changes. Agility in a virtual enterprise depends on the skills of its member enterprises and the characteristics of its supporting infrastructure in this paper. Various requirements and approaches for agility support during the VE life cycle are presented and topics ...

Organizational agility is a key challenge in today's business world. The Knowledge-Intensive Service Support approach tackles agility by combining process modeling and business rules. In the paper at hand, we present five approaches of process mining that could further increase the agility of processes by improving an existing process model.

Context: Agile software development has become popular in the past decade despite that it is not a particularly well-defined concept. The general principles in the Agile Manifesto can be instantiated in many different ways, and hence the perception of Agility may differ quite a lot. This has resulted in several conceptual frameworks being presented in the research literature to evaluate the lev...

agility is the fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival in turbulent markets, where environmental forces create additional uncertainty resulting in higher risk in the supply chain management. in addition, agility helps providing the right product, at the right time to the consumer. the main goal of this research is therefore to promote supplier selection in pharmaceutica...

The impact of enterprise systems (ES) on organisational agility (OA) is an under-researched area. Given the trends that most large organisations are moving towards ES and investing heavily on ES infrastructure and the increasing demand for agility, lack of research on ES and OA is a critical oversight. Using insights from the resource based view and dynamic capability theories; this paper argue...