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May 6, 2025
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Understanding How Business Transformation Processes Are Driven: A Business Agility Model

Publicated to: Administrative Sciences. 15 (4): 128- - 2025-03-31 15(4), DOI: 10.3390/admsci15040128

Authors:

Alvarez, A; Bordel, B
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Affiliations

Univ Politecn Madrid, Dept Comp Syst, Madrid 28031, Spain - Author

Abstract

Agile transformation processes are of critical importance in the contemporary business environment, as companies invest a significant amount of resources, time, and attention into achieve a state of business agility. These processes are complex, and companies lack reference roadmaps, guides, and even a common language to successfully achieve their goals. To assist organizations in these transformations, several business agility models have been proposed to help understanding where the transformation effort must be applied and where its effects will be manifested. However, there are numerous such transformations, which may be partial, and which reflect the author's beliefs and preferences, rather than necessarily aligning with the needs of organizations. Therefore, more comprehensive and general models are required. This paper addresses this challenge. Through a rigorous search and review process of the existing literature, 15 models were identified and used as a basis. After a process of analysis and refinement based on the completeness of business agility, the frequency with which their dimensions are mentioned in the models were analyzed, and the simplicity in the result was searched for, we propose a model based on nine dimensions. Each dimension describes where to focus the transformation process, plan the necessary actions, understand the results, and compare the process with other similar processes. The proposed model is comprehensive and highlights the dimensions most frequently mentioned in various cases and in the state of the art. It applies to the concept of completeness in business agility, covering the entire organization, instead of partial and biased views. This approach has been validated through a survey of participants in an ongoing study about agile transformations to increase the adaptability and sustainability of organizations. Our proposal has some known limitations, such as the criteria used in its elaboration, its granularity, and the equivalence of its dimensions with other models. As for its use, it is a tool, not a roadmap or a detailed transformation plan, and it has not yet been empirically validated.
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Keywords

AdaptabilityAdaptive organizationsAgileAgile enterprisesAgile transformationsBusiness agilitySustainable organizationSustainable organizations

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Administrative Sciences due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 181/420, thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Management. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q2 para la agencia Scopus (SJR) en la categoría Business, Management and Accounting (Miscellaneous).

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-27:

  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 1
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Impact and social visibility

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/95093/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 12
  • Downloads: 3
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (ALVAREZ GARCIA, ALONSO) and Last Author (BORDEL SANCHEZ, BORJA).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been BORDEL SANCHEZ, BORJA.

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Awards linked to the item

This work has received funding from the European Commission through the Ruralities project (grant agreement no 101060876).
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