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            The meaning of enterprise agility navigates to easy-to-change adaptability. From a business perspective, coordination refers to a distinct quality that enables organizations and companies to respond quickly to change. It is a system’s ability and ability to react promptly to a specific change by modifying its incipient and stable configuration.

Agility, concerning the results of organizational intelligence, is also considered. It is the aptitude to effectively respond to the emergence of new rivals, sudden changes in overall market conditions, and adaptation to industry-changing technology based on the degree of organizational agility.

            It is a cultured capability that allows a company to respond in a timely, reliable, and sustainable way when it is needed by changing situations. Also, it is recognized as an organization’s capacity to succeed in a competitive environment marked by constant and unexpected changes. It is the aptitude to rapidly retaliate against the rapidly evolving and fragmenting global markets served by computer-connected or networked rivals with access to a global production system, cost-effectiveness, high-performance, and customer-customized goods and services.

An organization, whether it has the following key features, is considered to have long-term market agility:

• Adaptability
• Flexibility
• Balance

Adaptability

Adaptability refers to an organization’s vivacity in rapidly integrating its technology, management, and resources through communication and information infrastructure in an efficient, deliberate, and organized response to increased external and internal change. There needs to be a constant and unexpected change in the market environment at issue.

Flexibility

Agility facilitates the organization’s increased flexibility. An enterprise is agile if it can quickly execute its core business strategies in a loose hierarchy and respond to the rapid market and global changes. An organization that can quickly reshape its cultural and business practices in line with changing circumstances is said to be agile and suits the concept of organizational resilience through the team members’ commitment and involvement. Organizational resilience guarantees civil engagement and participation by the team members.

Balance

Agility enables organizations through its organizational infrastructure to manage both the power and autonomy aspects. The company strikes a balance between its core activities by gaining diverse capabilities in the form of integrated skills and resource creation and providing a competitive advantage to adapt rapidly to changes in market conditions.

Final Thoughts

Organizations connect agility with the firm’s aggressiveness in managing and adapting to rapid market and global change. Turbulent environments demand agility in the organization. Therefore an organization needs to be decisive in reshaping its culture and business practices to accept readiness.

Agility is strategically vital in the sense that while the agile companies also change, they change for organizational progress. Agile companies can strategize and interpret changes accurately in their external environment. Agile organizations, like most businesses, don’t understand strategy. A strategy has three precise components for agile organizations: a change-friendly personality, a sense of shared purpose, and a robust strategic intent to define how a company differentiates itself.