Identifying Factors Effective on Innovation Agility in Educational Organizations and Presenting Structural Interpretational Model

Agility enables today’s agencies to compete with other agencies and also makes today’s agencies adapt themselves with the changes and respond rapidly. Therefore, agility is among the main factors of today’s agencies success and survival. Nowadays, innovation agility and agile innovative organizations have been included into the plans of many organizations senior managers. However, factors effective on innovation agility have been less investigated in many educational organizations such as Ministry of Education in Iran. The present study aims at responding to this necessity; therefore, the current study has been conducted aiming at identifying effective factors on innovation agility in educational organizations and presetting structural interpretational model. Therefore, purposeful sampling has been done in the Ministry of Education statistical population and the samples selected in snowball sampling technique. The results of identifying concepts showed that innovation agility model in the Ministry of Education had 79 concepts. In addition, the results of identifying minor concepts showed that this model had 8 minor concepts which had been divided into 3 major concepts. Capabilities was among the major concepts. This major concept included two minor concepts of personal characteristics and cultural factors. The next concept was background factors. This major concept included two minor concepts of human sources and environmental factors. The third concept was facilitating factors. This major factor included four minor concepts of structural factors, strategic factors, organizational factors and management factors.