Organizational agility – the ability to sense change and respond quickly – has been regarded as an important index of organizational performance in rapidly changing environments. However, agility research has overlooked the dynamics of the resource configuration process which covers resource selection, acquisition, development, and management. Prior studies mostly treated it as a ready starting...

Workforce agility has been considered as an important factor responding to the uncertain environment. However, current research on how to develop workforce agility remains unclear, so identifying the influencing factors for achieving workforce agility is needed. Based on the information processing view, we propose a model to examine how task conflict and relationship conflict affect workforce a...

Today the concept of agility has become popular and is still growing in popularity in the management and technology literatures. How do we really define an agile information system? How do we know if an information system is agile? And how do we evaluate the agility in the context of enterprise information systems? This paper tries to answer some of these questions. It precisely aims to present...

The objective of this thesis was to investigate business process agility and develop modeling approaches that ensure agility in business process design and execution. Business process agility is part of a broader agility issue, i.e. enterprise agility. The latter is a polymorphous concept that concerns all the aspect of an enterprise. Towards a comprehensive and systematic analysis of enterpris...

<span>Information technology and agility is a core item for organizations. With recent digital transformation in Malaysia’s automotive industry, the need to understand how human competencies influence organizational critical. This paper discusses antecedent factor of information personnel competency toward agility. Literature was reviewed further examined upon two systems theories, dynami...

The purpose of this study was to determine if straight sprint training transferred to agility performance tests that involved various change-of-direction complexities and if agility training transferred to straight sprinting speed. Thirty-six males were tested on a 30-m straight sprint and 6 agility tests with 2-5 changes of direction at various angles. The subjects participated in 2 training s...

Modern military operations are characterized by highly dynamic environments, complex strategic, operational, and tactical situations, a rich and evolving mix of allies and adversaries, inherent and sometimes massive uncertainty, and high risk. This combination of factors requires that military forces must continually transform and adjust to remain highly effective in extremely fluid environment...

Worldwide business organizations realize that agility of sustainable supply-chain is a requisite need for survival in dynamic, competitive, and unpredictable market. The contribution this research to explore evaluate supply chains dairy manufacturing organization located Saudi Arabia. Other contributions are update the literature about different factors contributing achieve agile chain, propose...

Enterprise architecture (EA) provides an integrated representation of an organization’s current and desirable future business capabilities, processes, systems, data and IT infrastructure. EA can interact with and enhance other organizational capabilities, including business transformation capabilities. Despite significant interest and investment in EA, there is little understanding of how EA ca...

PURPOSE To study the validity of a video-based reactive agility test in Australian footballers. METHODS 15 higher performance, 15 lower performance, and 12 nonfootballers completed a light-based reactive agility test (LRAT), a video-based reactive agility test (VRAT), and a planned test (PLAN). RESULTS With skill groups pooled, agility time in PLAN (1346 ± 66 ms) was significantly faster (P...