Degree of agility with an ontology based application

  • Markku Salo*
  • , Evangelos Markopoulos
  • , Hannu Vanharanta
  • , Jussi Kantola
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    Agility is a concept and practice with significant importance in managing projects and organizations, although it can also be very risky due to its degree of fuzziness if not properly defined. This research re-defines agility, emphasizes the need for ontologies for its management, and creates an application to measure the degree of agility inside an organization. In this research, various definitions of agility were gathered for the creation of ontology through a mind map revealing the characteristics of agility. As part of the Co-Evolute theory and methodology, the first agility ontology was developed as well as an application that evaluates the degree of agility in an organization. The application includes statements on which the respondents give opinions concerning the current and future desired states of agility and its importance in an evaluative way. The application has proven to operate well and extensive validation and verification of the tests runs will follow.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAdvances in Human Factors, Business Management, Training and Education - Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors, Business Management and Society
    PublisherSpringer-Verlag
    Pages1007-1018
    Number of pages12
    ISBN (Print)9783319420691
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016
    Publication typeA4 Article in conference proceedings
    EventInternational Conference on Human Factors, Business Management and Society -
    Duration: 1 Jan 1900 → …

    Publication series

    NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
    Volume498
    ISSN (Print)2194-5357

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Conference on Human Factors, Business Management and Society
    Period1/01/00 → …

    Keywords

    • Agility
    • Fuzzy logic
    • Management
    • Ontology
    • Software engineering
    • Strategic management

    Publication forum classification

    • Publication forum level 1

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Control and Systems Engineering
    • General Computer Science

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