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Business Agility
Published 2012 · Rickard Axelsson Björn Blomqvist
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Abstract
The global business climate has for many years been changing increasingly faster and some organizations have started to focus on becoming more agile to cope with this issue. In this report, the factors that a number of selected Swedish executives find to affect business agility the most are investigated and categorized into a business agility assessment framework. An abductive research approach has been used to obtain the results. In order to find out the validity of the model and to quantify the main categories and sub categories relative importance, a survey answered by 32 managers at different levels in top performing Swedish companies was used. The findings showed that the categories: corporate foresight; internal and external collaboration; information technology; and organizational factors, all with additional sub categories, where the ones that the executives thought to be the most important for organizations to focus on in order to be able to respond when change is necessary. Corporate foresight was the main category that got the highest result, but the single most important sub category was found to be internal cross-functional collaboration. The findings in this report can be used by e.g. consultancy firms as a base for developing a business agility assessment tool, which can be used to analyze clients and be able to illuminate areas of improvement. Key-words: Business agility, corporate strategy, assessment tool, consulting framework The Royal Institute of Technology Rickard Axelsson Master of Science Thesis Björn Blomqvist
Swedish executives prioritize corporate foresight, internal collaboration, information technology, and organizational factors to boost business agility and respond to change.
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