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What is Flexibility
1.
Flexibility
is needed to ensure effective responses to problems.
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2.
Virtual organizations are, by their nature, flexible. Traditional organizational structures are rooted in the physical world and rely on structures, unalterable networks, and specific locations to function properly. Because of this, when it becomes necessary to introduce change into a specific organization, a barrier is reached where further alteration requires physical, costly modifications. A virtual organization is unhindered by these problems. These structures are designed so that they can operate regardless of time or place, independent of existing physical realities.
Learn more in: Virtual Organization
3.
It is the property of organizations concerning their ability to adapt to different operative situations. The structural aspects of
flexibility
can be exactly quantified with graph-theoretical methods.
Learn more in: Structural Aspects of Organizations
4.
How much control an individual has over when and where work is completed. Generally flexible schedules have resulted in positive outcomes.
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5.
Flexibility
arises from the expected added value that the firm can generate from revising its strategy over time. Strategic
flexibility
reflects how the firm situates itself to avail of future opportunities, challenges, new game plans, or real options.
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6.
Facility how the application adapts to new consumers necessities.
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7.
Used figuratively, meaning to change easily in response to situations. In this article, it refers being able to move freely from pedagogical model to andragogical model and vice versa.
Learn more in: Andragogy or Pedagogy as a Means to Improve the Workforce?
8.
Refers to the operational
flexibility
to alter production when demand varies from forecast. For example, if demand is strong, a company may profit from employees working overtime or from adding additional shifts.
Learn more in: Role of Human Resources, Production Process, and Flexibility on Commercial Benefits From AMT Investments
9.
With regards to firms’ operations, it defines the ability to easily conform the manufacturing system to the variations in demand or supply, in order to constantly offer the quality and quantity of the products or services required by customers.
Flexibility
is considered as a method to build resilience, because it allows to easily move resources from one production to another in order to concentrate efforts on the priority manufacturing (concept linked to interchangeability) and to rapidly reconfigure products (concept linked to postponement).
Learn more in: Supply Chain Resilience
10.
The ability to adapt to expected and unexpected changes in the environment. In the context of this chapter,
flexibility
is quantifiable by the amount of changes introduced in a custom enterprise application over a given time period, as measured by its complexity.
Learn more in: The Value of Flexibility
11.
The ability to adapt to changes.
Learn more in: Background: Methodological and Contextual Aspects
12.
Flexibility
can be stated that a business adaptation its own structure and resources to change, to increase its market share, or to create new product and technology.
Learn more in: Leadership 5.0 in Industry 4.0: Leadership in Perspective of Organizational Agility
13.
Capacity to adjust to changing conditions and necessities.
Learn more in: The Relationship Between Performance Measures and Overall Performance in the Manufacturing Environment
14.
In response to the different needs of the very diverse students.
Learn more in: The Open University of Catalonia as a Virtual University
15.
Flexibility
is used figuratively, meaning to change easily in response to situations. In this article, it refers being able to move freely from the pedagogical model to the andragogical model and vice versa.
Learn more in: Andragogy and Pedagogy in Learning Theories
16.
Capability to respond to known or expected, but bounded changes and uncertainties.
Learn more in: Agile Holonic Network Organizations
17.
The ability to adapt to changes.
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18.
Use of standard size construction modules that can be easily adapted and modified to meet regional and cultural characteristics best.
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19.
A new pattern of work, which workers are not bound by the workplace, that is, work outside the organization, using information and communications technology.
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20.
The literal meaning of this word means the ability to adapt prearranged and prepared procedures to the circumstances. In distance education, learners are a heterogeneous group and possess different characteristics. Plus, these learners may have different learning styles. Most of distance-education learners are adult learners. According to the principles of andragogy, adult learners are normally self-directed learners. They are internally motivated learners. Their learning is usually contextual. However, this is not to say that instructors can only be learning facilitators. When adult learners are inexperienced with a subject matter, for example, computer science, instructors need to be knowledge dictators in order to help learners lay a solid foundation. When learners are self-directed, instructors can assume the role of learning facilitators.
Learn more in: Distance Learning Specialists
21.
Be able to enlarge role repertoire, not to be engulfed or stuck on one or two roles and to be flexible in ability to move from one role to another.
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22.
The ease with which a system or component can be modified for use in applications or environments other than those for which it was specifically designed (IEEE, 1990 AU21: The in-text citation "IEEE, 1990" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
Learn more in: Agents and Payment Systems in E-Commerce
23.
Ability to efficiently and effectively accommodate to market changes.
Learn more in: Strategic Value Creation in a Supply Chain
24.
Flexibility
is used figuratively, meaning to change easily in response to situations. In this article, it refers being able to move freely from pedagogical model to andragogical model and vice versa.
Learn more in: Pedagogy vs Andragogy Organizations
25.
The ability to change to suit new conditions or situations.
Learn more in: A Holistic Approach for Enterprise Agility
26.
The adaptability that comes from being able to use and to maneuver technology to maximize productivity as students, and in turn to harness the technology to the benefit of one’s own learners.
Learn more in: An Examination of Educators' and Learners' Experiences with Technology from Both Sides of the Learning Landscape: An Autoethnographic Exploration
27.
Flexibility
is the ease with which a system or component can be modified for use in applications or environments other than those for which it was specifically designed.
Learn more in: Integrity Protection of Mobile Agent Data
28.
Ability to adapt easily to different circumstances or to accommodate standards to different situations or needs.
Learn more in: Trends in Management of TI Projects and CEO Competence
29.
Capability of identifying multiple ways to succeed and moving seamlessly between them.
Learn more in: Informed Governance: The Objective Definition Model
30.
This is the ability of the joint to move freely around its axis without causing any crack in the joint.
Learn more in: Issues of Health-Related Physical Fitness of the Adult Learner
31.
A swarm with high
flexibility
can deal with different tasks with the same hardware and minor changes in the software, as nature swarms can finish various tasks in the same swarm.
Learn more in: A Survey on Swarm Robotics
32.
Ability of handling various tasks in different situations.
Learn more in: A Distributed Framework and Consensus Middle-Ware for Human Swarm Interaction
33.
Ability to move through the available range of motion
Learn more in: Adapted Physical Education in the Special Education Process
34.
Multiplicity of ways in which the user and the system exchange information.
Learn more in: Virtual Course of Accessibility of the Tecnológico Nacional de México and IT Aguascalientes: Analysis and Improvement Proposal
35.
Ability of the software team to continuously update the software artifact and deliver functionality.
Learn more in: Managing Contradictory Tensions in Agile Distributed Development: An Ambidextrous Approach
36.
A non-functional characteristic that refers to seamless integration or links to other systems, as well as the ability to import content from and supply content to digital libraries and other e-Learning systems.
Learn more in: Factors Influencing Virtual Learning System Usage in Higher Education
37.
A swift responsiveness to the changes in the external business environment and align business strategies, structure, culture and developing capabilities to meet expectations.
Learn more in: Ambidextrous Leadership for SMEs in the COVID-19 Era
38.
Ability to adapt readily to unusual situations and easily maneuver between teaching methods in order to produce successful outcomes. Unlike many teachers, teacherpreneurs are not resistant to innovative methods or ideas; instead, they embrace them in order to add to their educational toolbox.
Learn more in: Characteristics of a Teacherpreneur
39.
Engagement that can adapt to wider social and economic realities.
Learn more in: Designing Work-Based Learning Approaches for Gen Y, Gen Z, and Beyond
40.
the ability to reconfigure a process given new demands and constraints. This is done by a designer/expert
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