The study aimed to identify the strategic intelligence dimensions (Visioning, Foresight, Partnership, Intuition, and Creativity) on achieving organizational agility in the Mining and Extraction Industries sector in Jordan.
A study tool has been developed (a questionnaire) for the purposes of collecting the primary data from the study population which consisted of (15) companies, with a total number of employees amounting to (8377) a total of (337) has been chosen as a simple random representative sample of employees.
The study reached a number of results, including the following: All the strategic intelligence dimensions had an impact in achieving organizational agility, but the influence was more on dimensional creativity.
In light of the results that have been reached, the researcher recommended a set of recommendations, most notably the following: Managers need to better understand how to evaluate, identify organizational agility.
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