Purpose

The purpose of this study was to explore what agile learning strategies businesses need to develop agile core competencies to respond to the uncertainty of the rapidly changing business environment and sustain their competitive advantage. Technology advances and unexpected crises have created an ever-changing environment in which traditional static corporate training methods have failed to continuously provide employees with the ability to listen to and interpret the rapid changes and respond accordingly.

Design/methodology/approach

This qualitative exploratory multi-case study was useful to explore what agile learning strategies businesses need to develop agile core competencies to sustain their competitive advantage. Snowball sampling enabled the discovery of 15 participants who represented 10 different industries. Participants represented both management and non-management roles. Data were collected from multiple sources such as interviews, observations, researcher notes and document reviews. A thematic analysis model was used to analyze the collected data.

Findings

The findings substantiated that organizations are operating in a fast-changing environment where agile learning strategies are vital to surviving. The data also showed that agile learning strategies must include individual learning paths to continuously develop employees’ agile skills to build their organizations’ agile core competencies.

Originality/value

This study underlined the importance of adopting agile learning strategies to help employees listen and accurately interpret their organizations’ external environments to enable quick responses to changes. Without agile learning strategies, organizational agile core competencies and competitive advantage will progressively decline.

中文翻译：

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在不确定的商业环境中竞争的敏捷学习策略

目的

本研究的目的是探索企业需要什么样的敏捷学习策略来发展敏捷核心能力，以应对快速变化的商业环境的不确定性并保持其竞争优势。技术进步和突发危机创造了一个瞬息万变的环境，传统的静态企业培训方法无法持续为员工提供倾听和解读快速变化并做出相应反应的能力。

设计/方法/方法

这种定性探索性多案例研究有助于探索企业需要哪些敏捷学习策略来发展敏捷核心能力以维持其竞争优势。雪球抽样能够发现代表 10 个不同行业的 15 名参与者。参与者代表管理和非管理角色。数据是从多个来源收集的，例如访谈、观察、研究人员笔记和文件审查。使用专题分析模型对收集到的数据进行分析。

发现

调查结果证实，组织在快速变化的环境中运营，敏捷学习策略对于生存至关重要。数据还表明，敏捷学习策略必须包括个人学习路径，以不断发展员工的敏捷技能，以建立其组织的敏捷核心能力。

原创性/价值

这项研究强调了采用敏捷学习策略来帮助员工倾听并准确解释其组织的外部环境以快速响应变化的重要性。如果没有敏捷学习策略，组织敏捷核心能力和竞争优势将逐步下降。