Strategic flexibility is considered as sustainable advantage in today's global competitive environment. After exploring the link between the manufacturing objectives and their effect on the total industry performance in terms of profitability, product availability and capacity utilization, this study aims to quantify the strategic effect of applying five different strategies on the enterprise strategic flexibility capability. Using a system dynamic simulator that capture the strategic intent of the competing firms, results show that for industrial organizations to achieve high productivity, efficiency and maximum utilization rate they need to select from a wide range of strategic capabilities rather than concentrating on a single capability or process to match the requirements of the external environment with responsive rate that matches the industry clock speed.
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