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Chapter 2
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5424-0.ch002
ABSTRACT
The purpose of the study reported in the chapter is to conduct agile audit comprehensively to inculcate
agile culture in the organizations. A survey was conducted among 25 automotive component manufactur-
ing organizations located in Tamil Nadu, India. The audit system consists of 149 agile indices grouped
among fve clusters. The focus of agile audit was to examine whether an organization had adopted agile
principles and to construe the phase of agile journey the organization had reached. The audit also
specifcally gauges whether an organization has really implemented agile principles and the relative
position of an organizations compared with other organizations.
INTRODUCTION
Global firms and industries are focusing to vary their manufacturing practices from mass production to
customized production with respect to niche needs of their customers’ which can be achieved by practic-
ing Agile Manufacturing (AM) system. AM enables the organizations to cater to the dynamic demand
of the customers. AM principles enable modern firms to prosper in a highly competitive environment
thereby quickly reacting to dynamic demands of the customers. The implementation of agile principles
is a journey through which the organizations become a justifiable agile enterprise. In this context, the
conduct of agile audit enables organizations to justify whether agile principles have been adopted by the
Auditing for Evaluating the
Degree of Agile Practices
Implementation
Aravind Raj Sakthivel
Vellore Institute of Technology, India
Jayakrishna Kandasamy
Vellore Institute of Technology, India
Vimal KEK
Vellore Institute of Technology, India