Agile elements support development processes of manufacturing companies by enabling increased customer integration and improved responsiveness to unforeseen changes in the environment. However, existing agile approaches do not fully meet additional demands that mechatronics systems requires these approaches, for example because organizational structures considered approaches. This results chall...

The aim of this study is to determine the effect levels on organizational agility abilities as a result implementation Industry 4.0. Organizational was examined in terms four basic criteria: responsiveness, flexibility, quickness and competence study. In addition, twelve sub-criteria have been defined relation criteria. order sub-criteria, related studies were first conceptually then expert opi...

Agility is all the rage. Across the landscape, businesses request agility as a deliverable, make claims that they are agile, and (some) go so far as to assert they can provide agility to other corporate entities outside of their own sphere of influence. The challenge before us as a Systems Engineering Community is that (Enterprise) Agility, although well documented throughout engineering litera...

the electronic industry suffers a rapid changing and highly rival environment. thus, firms have an essential need to strive for acquiring the competitive advantage. strategy organizational agility (soa) is a tool which enables to assist firms to attain the competitive advantage. therefore, this study benchmarks the core competencies from a case study within the supply chain network and establis...

agility has an undeniable effect on organization success inthe present changing markets, and information technology (it) is a majorfacilitating factor in business activities of organizations nowadays,as about more than a half of present organizations capitals is based onit. therefore, assessment of the it application level and organizationalagility, and study of the effect of application of it ...

Cloud computing (CC) is a computing paradigm which currently receives a lot of attention. Especially the public cloud model promises several business related benefits such as cost-reduction, enhanced flexibility and increasing agility. However, there are several issues that challenge the enterprise-wide usage of public clouds leaving the potential gains virtually untapped. It is assumed that re...

In order to meet the demands on information technology (IT) capacities, organizations increasingly transform their existing IT landscape into more flexible, virtualized architectures. Companies being able to utilize high performance computing more efficiently than others possess higher dynamic capabilities and thus increase their business agility. However, operating high performance computing (...

Internet and IT have re-shaped the strategy logic of contemporary organizations. The new logic emphasizes business opportunity leveraging through constantly evolving entrepreneurial actions. The required business capabilities underlying such strategic logic, including organizational agility and IT competence, have also to be built and co-evolved. Based on Sambamurthy et al. [1] conceptual frame...

There is no current study that examined sport-specific tests of reactive-agility and change-of-direction-speed (CODS) to replicate real-sport environment in handball (team-handball). This investigation evaluated the reliability and validity of two novel tests designed to assess reactive-agility and CODS of handball players. Participants were female (25.14 ± 3.71 years of age; 1.77 ± 0.09 m and ...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world faces profound changes in many aspects, especially marketing competition, technological innovations and customer demands. A world-wide dispersion of education and technology has led to intense and increasingly global competition and an accelerated rate of change in the marketplace and innovation. There is a continuing fragmentation of mass...