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Agility and Adaptability Using Technology

Introduction

Technology enables the companies to fill the information sharing gaps and makes it more flexible to adjust according to changing demands of the business environment. The retail organizations incorporating the real time transaction monitoring system are more able to analyze the sales trends, the frequency of products being sold, with separate statistics for each product category and assortment. The company manages the product inventory according to these trends and develops forecasts based on the historical and seasonal trends. These organizations become adaptive to changing trends in the market. Manufacturing companies like Toyota, Ford Motor Company and Honda, link their supply chain with the help of systems and technology. The suppliers know their inventory level at the assembly line and deliver products as they reach critical level. This makes the organization more agile. Agility increase the company's robustness in business strategy, resilience to any uncertainty, responsiveness to the demands of the business, fosters the innovative culture to find more new ways of improving agility and develops adaptation in the organization. The organizations must employ the required staff which can make use of technology, develop networks among departments and people on social and information sharing bases. We will be looking at the ways in which system and technology prevent and enable organizational adaptation and agility. We will look into detail the situations which the organizations adapt and review the factors which prevent and enable the adaptation success. We will review the technologies which can provide best solutions to the organization in meeting crisis circumstances. We will assess the relationship between sense making in organization to command and control.

Discussion

Agility

Agility is the ability of the company to have quick responses to the changes within the company and outside the company. It enables the organization to meet the changing environment requirements. Agility of C2 can be expressed as the capability to uphold effectiveness of mission, proactively in the encountering of varying situations and focuses, together with the capability to innovate, develop, implement and support a successful mission.

Adaptation

Adaptation is the flexibility of the company in developing command and control structure to meet any new challenges. Adaptability enables the company to develop structures which maintains a strategic fit between the companies' resources and its challenges.

Technology and Systems

Technology and system play an important role in the development of organizational agility and adaptation. They primary requirement for the firm to become agile is to have great communication between peers, departments, companies stakeholders and customers. The technology is central to following key operations of agile businesses, which leads to agile and adaptive organizations.

Communication

Communication is essential for the normal working of the organization and the level of communication, play a critical role when the organization is faced with uncertainty. When an uncertainty is developed in the operations of the company, organization needs effective and efficient communication to inform all the related department of the issue and instruct to devise a possible solution for the problem. Technology can not only ...