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Critical Processes for Organization Vitality: A Conceptual Study

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Since last two to three decades, a drastic change has been seen in the business environment. Many of the organizations that were leaders before this are no more in existence. The reason behind that may be due to decrease in their vitality levels with respect to time. Organizations that fail to adapt the environmental changes might fail to even survive or grow further. A flexible and entrepreneurial attitude helps organizations to manage the changes. Continuous learning in the organization generates new innovative solutions, which helps in fulfilling the changing demands. This study focuses on the vitality issue and the process of achieving high vitality. Learning, innovation, flexibility, and entrepreneurship are the key pillars for gaining and sustaining high vital state. This chapter is based on review of literature and caselets of different organizations. Secondary data method has been used for this study. Finally, a “LIFE” mantra has been purposed as a process for continuous organization vitalization.

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    Sumant Kumar Bishwas &  Sushil

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    Gerhard Chroust

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Bishwas, S., Sushil (2015). Critical Processes for Organization Vitality: A Conceptual Study. In: Sushil, ., Chroust, G. (eds) Systemic Flexibility and Business Agility. Flexible Systems Management. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2151-7_13

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