RESOURCING A BUSINESS FOR FLEXIBILITY

Resourcing a Business for Flexibility

Resourcing a Business for Flexibility

Introduction

Organizations operating in a complex and dynamic environment adapt diverse and changing demands that require flexibility. This is conceptualized in the context of the strategy as a set of qualities that are reflected under certain conditions. That is a set of skills and abilities of the organization. As a concept has dimensions time, human, operational, and economic context within which distinguish reactive and proactive perspectives, skills and coordination, structural diversity, volume and quality of internalization and appropriation, and of efforts, resources and related costs (Torka & Velzen, 2007, pp. 94-99). From these it establishes the possibility of assessing the degree of strategic flexibility for different designs specific strategic and contextual situations, which would seek adjustment levers that grade to facilitate the adjustment of the strategy to the different situations of the changing environment.

Discussion

The Strategic Flexibility

The company Gourmet Food limited as an open system, to solve the problems caused by changes in its environment, it poses challenges to address is not yet fully overcome. In the presence of perturbations generate variations in both the environment and the company itself which alter the results to be achieved, looking for actions to be adapting the changes. The existence of a turbulent environment requires a high degree of flexibility in the process of formulation, implementation and control system.

The need for strategic flexibility in a complex and dynamic to adapt to diverse and changing requirements requires "reconfigure the structure of company resources and make the necessary internal and external transformations" and cannot be considered as a rigid, "must collect within it demands rapid adaptation and active to the changing business environment” (Koeing, 2010, pp. 138-46). That have not yet been developed methodological approaches and practical deployment to the level that would achieve the necessary flexibility at the right time. To delve into the practical application of the flexibility in the strategic management process is necessary to deepen their theoretical and conceptual aspects.

This paper shows an approach to the concepts of flexibility, proposes a conceptualization of strategic flexibility, and determines dimensions and perspectives of analysis.

Development

The need for flexibility in the strategy

The successful implementation of the strategy is not absolute guarantee that the progress of actions to be carried out consistent with the changing demands of the business environment. "The constant change in all components of the business environment, and consequently, the expiration date are born with good strategic decisions, explains the difficulty for a company to continue to maintain a strong position in its market” (Michie, 2009, pp. 408-21). In order to maintain that position, not only in the market, but its ultimate goal of providing benefits to society, the company must achieve a process of adjusting his plans, control systems and allocation of tasks and responsibilities, which permit the recovery consistency with the environment, to carry out the planned strategy and, if necessary, introduce changes within the strategic design. This presupposes a certain level of flexibility in the strategy.

Flexibility, from studies of various authors in various fields of business (operational management, human resource ...