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- Adaptability and divisibility of resources (human and technological)
resulting from their versatility as well as their redundancy, adaptability
and substitutability;
- The flexible nature of business processes and support (and alternatives
possible reconfigurations, low cost and duration of adjustment, combined activities
and recomposables, etc.);
- Maintaining degrees of freedom, also called organizational and slacks
technological (eg timing margins, over-capacity, static stocks
or circulating) that quickly allow to adapt and integrate new
constraints;
- The flexible nature of the monitoring process, including planning
operations (which leave open several scenarios, preparing different
response patterns according to alternative scenarios and can exploit
Information acquired after planning), combined with an ability
to adjust / review the on-going planning;
- The active search for additional information to better anticipate,
associated with a decision allowing more flexibility opened the field
future decisions;
- The ability to analyze new information, manage the arrival of new
planned events (eg beginning and end of activities, release of
resource, acquiring new capabilities, etc.) or unforeseen (delays, failures,
urgent requests defection of a partner, etc.), exploiting way
relevant existing static flexibility;
- The ability to recognize early a need for change, the ability to
organizational change (which is related to the degree of organizational structuring)
and innovation.
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