Business agility – new trend in business

Abstract

This paper focuses on a new trend in management – business agility. This term is brand new in the field of management, but agile practices are well known in project management, especially in the IT sector. Purpose – the purpose of the paper is to clear the ify the relevance of a brand new topic – business agility. This purpose will be divided into six partial purposes. Research methodology – the research methodology consists of literature reviews as the first step followed by hypothesis and questionnaire survey. Findings – the findings and results derived from the research and reported at the end of the paper. The questionnaire survey is carried out to support or disprove the hypothesis. The most significant chapters are finding results and conclusion. Practical implications – the practical implications can be found in the model of business agility transformation that can be used in business, the potential risk of business agility transformation and benefits related to business agility. Research limitations – there is one research limitation and it is basically because there are not many companies that are agile in the Czech Republic and the term of business agility is new and it can influence a number of the filled questionnaire. Originality/Value – the originality and value can be seen in the contribution of this paper: the model of implementation business agility into the company.