| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 管理研究所 === 100 === Today both knowledge and technology are ever-changing. The economic environment is changing too. Not only the stress of competition has been increasing but also consumers routinely complain about the quality of product or services. The legislative environment is becoming very strict. The operations related costs such as eco-friendly sustainable, energy resources are nearly running depletion. Those natural raw materials are continuingly to be in short supply. The costs of sustained relationships with customers are ever increasing. The competitive advantage of business scale and efficiency from inward resources and market positioning are no longer to secure its sustained development. How do they interpret and adapt the sign of external change, the use of agility plays as a very important role to analyze the information and forecast the market trend in the future. It’s all in the agility.
This case study is doing research to a multinational wholesaler to understand on how to use their resource advantage to do the global connection. How can one quickly find a way to locate a substitute to make up for the sales loss and service gaps? By using a learning organization implement conveyed with demonstration and simulation to do paradigm and knowledge shifting. Group members were awarded for elevating their own ability by continuingly self-discipline learning. How to use the inward management tools to set up an exchange platform for everyone to share information, knowledge and experience with the others? Make full use of the organization’s resource that can better relate to the group and employees talents those who can be appreciated and deployed to an appropriate position as well as attract perspective persons to join the team. The level of collaboration in the entire activity is the key to the purchasing agility implement and application success.
According to this research we draw a conclusion the agility is an evolution by putting continuingly learning, linkage and cohesive force together as well as goals and visions shared. The agility can boost the business competitive advantage and ensure its sustained development. Suggestion that the agility is specific ability the competitors unable to imitate and need to take long to develop and have to put lot of efforts with learning tools and technology to make it. Organizational learning culture associates with information sharing and efficiency communication are all essence to the agility. High ranking support and incentive awards are all helping the ability development. For long term maintenance an open-mind, flexible with creative management are all essential for its success.
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