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Reestablishing Organizational Stability Through Leading Resilience: Avoiding The Maelstrom Of Personal Distress Caused By An Organizational Disruption, Wallace Andrew Huey Jr

Business Administration Dissertations

The purpose of this paper is to address the increasing need for organizations to find the point of initiating resilience at a faster pace in a world that is experiencing an increase in the tempo of disruptions. Leading resilience is proposed as the path to finding the point of resilience. Leading resilience would be a tool to be pulled from the toolbox and utilized daily. It should not sit in a box with a label that states, break the seal only in an emergency.

This paper was developed from a grounded theory research study and the study was informed by …

The Vortex Of Continuous Development Of Embedded Systems: An Inquiry Into Agility Orchestration, David A. Bishop

Business Administration Dissertations

Agile methodologies have become a popular and widely accepted method for managing software development. Since the inception of the Agile Manifesto over ten years ago, agile development techniques have superseded waterfall methods in many, if not most, software development organizations. Despite its apparent success, many companies have struggled with the adoption and implementation of agile, and exactly what level of adoption provides optimum agility. Agility is commonly held in the literature to be constructed of elements external to a company or project but may in fact be composed of both external and internal elements. The exact relationship of the adoption …