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The uncertain global changes in the market industry that can unfold potential opportunities and risk it became vital for organizations to be agile to sustain its market position and be able to face challenges and maintain the success journey ultimately. Accordingly, it’s essential to explore organizational agility capabilities as enablers to maintain organizational competitiveness. Flexibility, learning, speed, innovation, and strategy were addressed as the primary organizational capabilities to be considered for successful sustainable organizational competitiveness. The paper also identified relevant theoretical framework linked to the address capability including Organizational Change Theory by Lewin, Organizational Change Model by Kotter, Organizational Learning Theory by Oslen & March and Theory of Dynamic Capabilities by Teece was it discussed how those capabilities are linked. Moreover, the paper addressed a case study on the impact of Deep Learning on Organizational Agility Lastly; the paper is concluded by the illustration of findings, gaps, and suggestions for future research.
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Zainal, A.Y., Yousuf, H., Salloum, S.A. (2020). Dimensions of Agility Capabilities Organizational Competitiveness in Sustaining. In: Hassanien, AE., Azar, A., Gaber, T., Oliva, D., Tolba, F. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision (AICV2020). AICV 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1153. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44289-7_71
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