Digital Agility, Strategic Alignment, and Learning Orientation: Drivers of Organizational Resilience and Effectiveness

Abstract

Organizational resilience and efficacy have become pivotal elements of long-term sustainability in the present-day unstable and dynamic business environment. This paper explores the relationship between digital agility, strategic alignment, and learning orientation as key building blocks for resilient and high-performing organizations. The capability to flexibly adapt digital capabilities in a very quick way is digital agility, which serves as a stimulus to organizational flexibility. Strategic alignment makes sure that there is consistency between what the organization aims at and what it does, whereas learning orientation makes sure that there is constant innovation and adaptation. This study aims to know how the three constructs interact (combine) to determine their effect on resilience and organizational effectiveness. The emergence of digital disruption, uncertainty in the market, and global crises has increased the importance of organizations changing their resilience strategies. Older forms of strategy and ability-making can no longer cope with new challenges. This paper considers and empirically works with the association between digital agility, strategic alignment, and learning orientation regarding organizational resilience and effectiveness. The study constructs a conceptual model through a comprehensive analysis of previous literature and validates it using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). A structured questionnaire was used to gather data on 346 mid and senior-level managers from the employees of OPTCL. The constructs were measured with the help of the developed scales. Before carrying out SEM, convergent and discriminant validity, and reliability were tested. The findings suggest that there are strong direct and mediating correlations between the variables to support the hypotheses. The implications of the findings are on the digital transformation strategy, leadership practices, and knowledge management systems. Through a more humanistic approach to agility and alignment, and learning, organizations will be able to manage uncertainty more easily and increase their overall effectiveness.