The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of training change-of-direction speed and small-sided games on performance in the Planned-AFL agility test and reactive agility. Twenty-five elite-standard U-18 Australian Rules football players were randomly allocated either to a change-of-direction group or a small-sided games group. Players participated in one or two 15-min sessions per ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...