Digitalisation - the Basis for Building an Agile Enterprise

Enterprise digitalisation and agility are two key concepts that can work together to contribute to an organisation's competitiveness. Enterprise digitalization as a process of transforming traditional business models and processes using digital technologies enables the implementation of agile principles. Enterprise agility as the ability to adapt quickly and efficiently to unpredictable changes in the environment is becoming an important competitive factor. The aim of the article is to reveal the interactions between digitalization and enterprise agility and to present the results of primary research in industrial enterprises of the Slovak Republic focused on the perception of the importance of digitalization in the context of agility. The results showed that digitalization is an important element of agility and an essential starting point in building an agile enterprise. Slovak industrial enterprises consider digitisation as an important help in coping with unexpected changes such as the coronacrisis, as a result of which digitisation has accelerated. However, the current adverse global circumstances mean that one third of enterprises have reduced or stopped digitisation altogether and the number of digitising enterprises has declined over three years. Digitisation can transform business models and create agile operating models.