87 research outputs found
From Traditional to Agile - An exploratory study of how large companies can achieve Organizational Agility
Background and Purpose: Todayâs business environment is exposed to rapid changes, why companies must obtain the ability to be flexible and respond quickly to changing circumstances. Consequently, organizations are increasingly realizing the need of becoming agile. Organizational agility encompasses agility across the whole organization, meaning that the agile transformation process affects all levels of the company. Because of this, the process of achieving organizational agility is highly complex, particularly for large organizations. However, there is yet no model or framework in existing research outlining the transformation process and little research has addressed the key success factors and challenges of organizational agility that are specific for large companies. Accordingly, there is a clear need for further research within the field. The purpose of this thesis is therefore to explore how large companies can achieve agility on an organization-wide level by investigating the main key success factors and challenges of organizational agility, as well as the process of becoming an agile organization. Methodology: The research was conducted through a qualitative, exploratory study. The result is based upon an extensive literature review of the concept of organizational agility and how it can be achieved. The findings were extended by conducting semi-structured interviews with respondents possessing relevant knowledge about organizational agility. The findings from the literature review and the empirical results were thereafter compared and analyzed in order to deepen the understanding of how organizational agility can be achieved by large organizations.
Main Findings: The result shows that organizational agility is characterized by five attributes: adaptation, changing environment, flexibility, responsiveness, and speed. Furthermore, there is a large number of key success factors and challenges of organizational agility, where the main ones were identified. The findings also reveal that large organizations go through two main phases of the agile transformation process, referred to in this study as exploring and progressing. Finally, the findings of the study show that organizational agility affects five core organizational areas: strategy, process, structure, people, and technology. Consequently, all five areas must be reconfigured to fit an agile environment, and thus to be able to achieve organizational agility
A Clinical Study With Statistical Methods
The aim of this investigation was to study with statistical methods, age and sex-distribution, seasonal variations, localization and laboratory data in 365 patients, 191 males and 174 females, with lichen planus treated at the Department of Dermatology, Guthenburg, Sweden, during the period 1954- 1963. Most patients received outpatient treatment but some were hospitalized for their disease. The data were collected from outpatient registers and hospital records
Ă tgĂ€rdsvalsstudie â VĂ€g 158, Göteborg - Kungsbacka
VĂ€g 158 Ă€r hĂ„rt belastad under vissa tider pĂ„ dygnet. Detta leder bland annat till bristande framkomlighet och kapacitet för kollektivtrafik sĂ„vĂ€l som för biltrafik. Trafikbelastningen bedöms dessutom öka till följd av planerad exploatering i kombinationen med att strĂ„ket idag omfattas av attraktiva omrĂ„den att bo och vistas i. Resultatet av Ă„tgĂ€rdsvalsstudien visar pĂ„ utmaningen att öka andelen resor med hĂ„llbara transportmedel genom minskad andel bilresor. För att lösa de övergripande kapacitetsproblemen pĂ„ lĂ€ngre sikt sĂ„ bedöms det ocksĂ„ aktuellt att ytterligare utreda en ny storskalig lösning av kollektivtrafik i strĂ„ket. Ett kollektivtrafikreservat lĂ€ngs vĂ€g 158 Ă€r utpekat i aktuella översiktsplaner, och bör behĂ„llas för fortsatt utredning. Ă
tgĂ€rdsvalsstudiens rekommenderade Ă„tgĂ€rder representeras av samtliga steg enligt fyrstegsprincipen, frĂ„n pĂ„verkansĂ„tgĂ€rder till ny- och ombyggnation av exempelvis trafikplats och planskild gĂ„ng- och cykelpassage. Ett flertal Ă„tgĂ€rder planeras att föregĂ„s av fortsatt utredning. Ă
tgĂ€rdsförslagen redovisas i en tidslinje fram till Ă„r 2040. Varje Ă„tgĂ€rd har en ansvarig aktör som initierar, samordnar, driver och ser till att beslut kommuniceras. SammanstĂ€llningen av Ă„tgĂ€rderna Ă€r uppdelat pĂ„ fem olika Ă„tgĂ€rdspaket; âPĂ„verkansĂ„tgĂ€rder (transportslagsövergripande)â, âKollektivtrafikâ, âBiltrafikâ, âGĂ„ng- och cykeltrafikâ samt âMiljöâ.Kontakta Trafikverket för Ă„tkomst till bilagor.</p
Omlastningskostnader i Samgods och samhÀllsekonomin
Syftet med projektet Omlastningskostnader i Samgods och samhĂ€llsekonomin Ă€r att förbĂ€ttra Trafikverkets och ASEKs schablonvĂ€rden för vad det kostar att lasta om gods i olika sorters terminaler. FörbĂ€ttringen ska gĂ€lla tvĂ„ aspekter: NivĂ„n pĂ„ vĂ€rdena Tydlighet med vilka faktorer/delkostnader som inkluderas i vĂ€rdena Denna delrapport syftar till att redovisa det arbete som gjorts för att se över och förslĂ„ nya lastnings- och lossningskostnader och -tider till Samgods. Delar av vĂ€rdena har införts i modellen under juni 2015 och ingĂ„r dĂ€rmed i den modellversion som kalibreras under sommaren 2015.This is a report for a Work Package in a more extensive project called Capacity4Rail. The project is financed by the EU and is organized into several SPs and many Work Packages. This report, âProgress beyond State of the Art in Rail Freight Systemsâ, is one of the first reports from the project and will gather together some basic facts for the coming work.Bo-Lennart Melldal, Mats Berg, Dewan Islam, Stefano Ricci, Ignacio Gonzales, Armand Toubol, Laurent Schmitt, Anders Rydberg, Miroslav Obrenovic, Tomas ArvidssonOmlastningskostnader i Samgods och samhĂ€llsekonomi
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