agile management and vuca-rr: opportunities and threats in industry 4.0 towards society 5.0

Agile Management and VUCA-RR provides cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research and expert insight into the advancing technologies and new strategies being used in businesses settings, as well as for administrative and leadership roles in organizations.

In times of VUCA-RR (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, rapidity and radicality), Agile Management facilitates the competence, capacity, and confidence to adapt and innovate by promoting effective responses to the unexpected and unplanned agility challenges facing most organizations today, quickly turning challenges into opportunities through agility management. Agile Management and VUCA-RR demonstrates the different radical mindsets of organizational leadership globally and the implementation of strategies that are essential to create agile, entrepreneurial organizations that thrive in complex, ever-changing contexts.

Chapters from international authors contribute substantially to the research and practice of agile software development through sharing knowledge gained from both their academic and professional communities. The challenges and solutions expressed by each group are presented to inform and teach, as well as guide us towards future working solutions.

Dr. Bülent Akkaya is a lecturer in the Department of Office Management, and is Executive Assistant of the Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey. His research interests comprise networks and partnerships in diverse disciplines. He has been working on dynamic capabilities, agile leadership, industry 4.0 & industry 5.0, and quality of management in contemporary enterprises, and has published many articles, books and book chapters both in Turkish and English.