Effective Factors in Organizational Agility
Subject Areas : Knowledge Management
Milad
Aghaee
1
(Allameh Tabataba’I University)
Reza
Aghaei
2
Keywords: Agility, Agileness, Organization, Organizational Agility.,
Abstract :
In the current century, agility is one of the critical and functional concepts for organizations in which act in an active and dynamic environment and face threats to which lack of quick response makes organizations far from survival and operation. So, this aims to consider effective factors on agility and agileness of organizations and to present a theorical and conceptual structure. According to its goal,This is a fundamental research. This research, using the current resources, aims to develop existing knowledge of agility principles and laws and to present a theorical basis for organizational agility (or agileness of organizations ). The results showed that effective factors on organizational agility based on studying agility models and articles encompass 42 factors. The factors based on previous studies and Pareto principle are as bellow: consistency to change, cost effectiveness, flexibility, IT infrastructure, quick delivery, virtual organization and empowered and multi-skill employees. These factors have the most frequent between other factors. Future researches can deal with classification of these factors and to test them in organization environment.