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Abstract
It is essential for any manufacturing organisation endeavouring to become agile to identify the relative importance of different agility enablers that contribute the most to agility of an organisation. So in this paper an attempt has been made to identify the agility enablers and the criteria of agile manufacturing from literature review and subsequently ranked the agility enablers after comparing their importance with each agile criterion by analytical hierarchy process (AHP) tool. Sensitivity analysis is performed on the results to check robustness of the ranking while future research opportunities in this research are also identified at the end. The results showed that the management response agility and the supply chain agility received first and second position as the most important enablers while the work force agility is the least important when it comes to make an organisation agile in nature.
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The objective of IJASM is to establish an effective channel of communication between academia, industry and persons concerned with the design and development of systems. Change is eternal and perpetual, irrespective of type of system. Systems created in the course of the advance of human civilization need to be functionally and operationally sustainable amid changes in technological, political, socio-economical, financial, cultural and other environmental challenges. IJASM aims to promote and harmonize knowledge developments in the emerging fields of agile systems research, sustainability and vulnerability analysis, risk assessments methodologies, complex systems science, e-organisation and e-supply chain management, with emphasis on the international dimension, particularly breaking cultural barriers, and on national contexts, globalisation and new business practices. As such, we aim to publish papers presenting new research, innovative theoretical approaches, changes in agile management paradigms, and action (both examples of successes and failures as long as there are important lessons to be learned) from leading scholars and practitioners. Papers generally fall into two broad categories: those grounded in theory and/or papers using scientific research methods (e.g., reports of original empirical studies, models, critical reviews of existing empirical research, theory pieces that clearly extend current thinking); and those focusing on innovative agile approaches that are based on well reasoned extensions of existing research, experiential knowledge, or exemplary cases (e.g., thought pieces, case studies, etc).