Analytical approach to effective factors on organizational agility
رویکرد تحلیلی به عوامل موثر بر چابکی سازمانی
ABSTRACT
In this turbulent world, the only thing which does not change is the change itself. In the business world which is directed increasingly under the three terms of customer, competition and change, organizations are trying to find the solutions for their problems. In the past decade, most companies adapted restructuring and re-engineering in response to environment challenges and demands, but nowadays the old approaches and solutions have lost their competency to deal with the organizational challenges and they are better to get replaced with new methods. The best and newest way of survival and success of the organizations is focusing on their organizational agility. The organizational agility is a wisely and complete response to the rapidly changing requirements in competitive markets and succeeding by the opportunities the organization gets. The aim of current research is to study the effective factors on organizational agility. Many researchers have classified these factors under three sections including drivers, capabilities and enablers of the agility. With reference to this approach, the paper has presented some conceptions of agility at the beginning and a brief history of it. Then, drivers, capabilities and 26 enablers have been introduced with imparting different theories and models. It is expected that this research would be able to accelerate the organizations getting success and helping the future researchers.
KEY WORDS: Agility, Drivers, Capabilities, Enablers.
رویکرد تحلیلی به عوامل موثر بر چابکی سازمانی
ABSTRACT
In this turbulent world, the only thing which does not change is the change itself. In the business world which is directed increasingly under the three terms of customer, competition and change, organizations are trying to find the solutions for their problems. In the past decade, most companies adapted restructuring and re-engineering in response to environment challenges and demands, but nowadays the old approaches and solutions have lost their competency to deal with the organizational challenges and they are better to get replaced with new methods. The best and newest way of survival and success of the organizations is focusing on their organizational agility. The organizational agility is a wisely and complete response to the rapidly changing requirements in competitive markets and succeeding by the opportunities the organization gets. The aim of current research is to study the effective factors on organizational agility. Many researchers have classified these factors under three sections including drivers, capabilities and enablers of the agility. With reference to this approach, the paper has presented some conceptions of agility at the beginning and a brief history of it. Then, drivers, capabilities and 26 enablers have been introduced with imparting different theories and models. It is expected that this research would be able to accelerate the organizations getting success and helping the future researchers.
KEY WORDS: Agility, Drivers, Capabilities, Enablers.
