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To maintain competitiveness under changing environments, the management of many organizations has considered agility as one of the key success factor. In this paper, the key factors for being an agile organization of companies in Thailand are explored. The sample group of this study is selected from company lists on the stock exchange of Thailand (SET) that had been ranked in top 200 Thailand's most innovative companies. The questionnaire is used to explore the components of an agile organization. The result of factor analysis concludes that there are three factors pertaining to the development an organization in Thailand to be agile. Those factors are 1) market orientation 2) leadership 3) performance tracking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the key issues impacting the adoption of new technology in healthcare organizations. Case studies of new technologies implementation in four hospitals in Thailand are conducted through a series of in-depth interviews to determine the factors affecting adoption process. The results present the key issues that influence adoption decision and implementation processes. At the organization level, the findings contend that these hospitals primarily make decisions to adopt new technologies based on project-related costs. At the individual level, the processes are mostly founded to be affected by human-related issues. Apart from the identification of key factors, the latter part of this paper also includes the mental framework of adoption developed based on the technology acceptance model (TAM). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This study focuses on applying technology intelligence to discover the professional communities and social networks of biomedical engineering (BME) field in Thailand. The BME field in Thailand is at the starting stage of development; therefore, the research communities and networks for collaboration among key experts has not well established yet. This paper aims to; identify BME sub-research areas that are currently focused by BME experts in Thailand; identify the professional communities of researchers and practitioners related to BME from engineering and medical field; and identify social networks of BME engineering team in Thailand. The identification of these three aspects can support the development of potential collaboration among different groups of BME experts in Thailand in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]