Models of Resource Agility of an Enterprise

Agility is meant as a feature enabling the enterprise to use opportunities and avoid the threats. Agile enterprise is oriented on using the market opportunities. The ability is dependent on the resources the enterprise possesses or which are in its disposal. The resources can be classified into four following groups: material technologies, finance, social, and knowledge. In the paper the variety of state of resources are discussed to show their influence on the agility of enterprise. According to the four above categories of the resources the following models of agility are distinguished: technological, financial, social, and entrepreneurial. Each of the models presents the relation between the state of the resources and the both agility and business risk