Agile management and VUCA 2.0 (VUCA-RR) during industry 4.0

dc.contributor.authorAhmed J.
dc.contributor.authorMrugalska B.
dc.contributor.authorAkkaya B.
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-10T11:04:22Z
dc.date.available2025-04-10T11:04:22Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe world is changing fast and pace of changes that are being observed since start of the twenty-first century have never been observed before. Due to such changes and their impact, world is described in terms of Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA). The trend of industry 4.0 is also said to be an another contributing factor into the VUCA environment. The VUCA creates a lot of challenges for organization from the perspective of management and leadership. Both business and leadership agility are needed more than VUCA as the VUCA world is becoming old. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to review the literature and to summarize the understanding with regard to managing VUCA-RR world in an era of Industry 4.0. Since the advent of term VUCA, many researchers have provided theoretical model and framework to guide managers regarding to their action and strategies. But, current research postulates based upon the literature that agile management's tools and techniques are highly effective in managing the situation of VUCA-RR in the era of Industry 4.0. The research concludes that Industry 4.0 together with VUCA-RR and indecently possess to change management challenges to organizations. The organization can be in better position to manage change management challenges posed by Industry 4.0 by implementing the agile management. The Industry 4.0 will latter compliment to agile management tools and techniques which will make any organization to become a better equipped to face the VUCA-RR world. The research has also concluded that agile management powered by Industry 4.0 enabling technologies presents enormous opportunity in the form of VUCA 2.0 (Vision, Understanding, Courage, Adoptability, Rapidity and Radicality) that can be used to square off the effect of VUCA-RR world. © 2022 by Junaid Ahmed, Beata Mrugalska and Bulent Akkaya. All rights reserved.
dc.identifier.DOI-ID10.1108/978-1-80262-325-320220002
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14701/45317
dc.publisherEmerald Group Publishing Ltd.
dc.titleAgile management and VUCA 2.0 (VUCA-RR) during industry 4.0
dc.typeBook chapter

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