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...

enterprise resource planning (erp) has become the most strategic tool for an organization to employ. a leading erp solution is sap®. it has been employed by organizations to enable them to collaborate on different projects and to integrate all aspects of operations. just as organizations have adopted erp solutions, they employed quality initiatives that are designed to help organizations maximi...

As the scale of automated and unmanned forces increases, a crucial challenge of controlling, coordinating, and synchronizing the operations of individual force components must be solved. In asymmetric future environments, including urban security operations or disaster relief missions, the traditional hierarchical command and control (C2) organizational structures would not provide enough flexi...

This is a discussion of the essential features of product development traceability maps in relation to requirements, architecture, functional models, components, and tests as a set of order type hierarchies and their cross-links. This paper lays out the structure of these ideal traceability relationships that define the essence of the product under development. The importance of the trace relat...

Some institutions have sought to centralize the supports they give students by developing a center or office dedicated international students, led director manager overseeing student support. However, these directors are also not given resources needed fully support students. Our study focuses on role and empowerment of leaders. A multi-institution case approach, guided framework, was utilized....

Agile management prescribes a set of structures and processes to help teams respond change. This article presents an in-depth case study examining how high- low-agility nursing differed in their response the COVID-19 pandemic, organizational restructuring, floods. It unveils crucial role “affective leaders” high-agility during those crises. These leaders constructed positive emotional experienc...

In the recent few years more and more software development organizations are striving to adopt agile software development methods and techniques. Successful agile adoption leads to producing higher quality software, enhance developers moral and at a lower cost than the traditional water wall model approach. However, Agile adoption always comes with special challenges and accordingly, fundamenta...

Although federal legislative policies greatly impact service delivery in local communities because they dictate which organizations will be allowed to participate in federally funded service provision, there has been little, if any, comparative, quantitative analysis of religious and secular organizations within the same geographic context (Vidal 2001). For example, the 1996 Charitable Choice l...

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...