Dynamic agility of inter-organizational processes

Li, W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2878-3185, Gao, H., Yan, Z. and Liu, K. (2009) Dynamic agility of inter-organizational processes. In: IEEE Symposium on Advanced Management of Information for Globalized Enterprises, 28-29 Sep 2008, Tianjin, China, pp. 51-55.

Abstract/Summary

The agility of inter-organizational process represents the ability of virtual enterprise to respond rapidly to the changing market environment. Many theories and methodologies about inter-organizational process have been developed but the dynamic agility has seldom been addressed. A virtual enterprise whose process has a high dynamic agility will be able to adjust with the changing environment in short time and low cost. This paper analyzes the agility of inter-organizational process from a dynamic perspective. Two indexes are proposed to evaluate the dynamic agility: time and cost. Furthermore, the method to measure the dynamic agility using simulation is studied. Finally, a case study is given to illustrate the method to measure the dynamic agility.