Supply chain paradigms have been explored, but it is still very difficult to integrate some concepts that seem to be contradictory. This paper explores production and supply chain paradigms such as lean, agile, resilient and green. Tradeoffs between these management paradigms are identified and explored to help organizations and their supply chains to become more efficient and competitive. This...

modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complextasks. in order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital toobtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higherquality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. in order to achieve such objectives a paradigmhas bee...

Abstract Context Responding to change and continuously improving processes, practices, products are core agile software development. It is no different in large-scale agile, where multiple development teams need respond both changes their external environments within the organization. Objective With this study, we aim advance knowledge on coordination by developing a model of types organization...

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...

In this paper we present results from the deployment of F/OSS virtualization platform. This platform was used both for providing existing NDC’s services, in a production environment, and for developing additional new services using agile development methods. In greater detail, F/OSS virtualization was selected as the best solution in order to meet a number of different NDC’s requirements, these...

For an organization to sustain in the dynamic environment today, agility has become a key solution in its survival struggle. In attaining agility capability the standard formula for an organization is to achieve high flexibility in responding to stimulus and change. From this perspective, we have found a unique case study in which a hospital has successfully implemented three healthcare IT syst...

Petroleum companies have great interest in developing their countries through improving their resources to be more competitive. They are also trying to maintain a high level of responsiveness to achieve agility and to remain competitive in the global marketplace especially after instability of oil prices and global financial crisis. Agile systems (AS) is considered as the next industrial revolu...

Together with many success stories, promises such as the increase in production speed and improvement stakeholders' collaboration have contributed to making agile a transformation software industry which companies want take part. However, driven either by natural expected evolution or contextual factors that challenge adoption of methods prescribed their creator(s), processes practice mutate in...

Nowadays, business supply chains for the production of complex products or services are likely to involve a number of autonomous organizations. The competitive market requires that these supply chains are highly agile, effective and efficient. Agility and effectiveness are obtained by forming highly dynamic virtual enterprises within supplier networks. We call these instant virtual enterprises ...

Agile methodologies are gaining popularity in industry although they compromise a mix of accepted and controversial software engineering practices. Both global software development and agile approaches have gained significant popularity. Companies even show interest in applying agile approaches in distributed development to combine the advantages of both approaches. This is done despite their d...