Iraqi Journal for Administrative Sciences

The aim of this research is to determine the effect of strategic flexibility as an independent variable throughout its dimensions (human capital flexibility, information flexibility, and expansion flexibility) in achieving the strategic performance as a dependent variable by adopting three dimensions(customer, internal operations, growth and learning aspects), and starting from a major problem that was embodied through a question that is, what is the role of the strategic flexibility of the national card departments in achieving the strategic performance of these organizations? The descriptive analytical research approach has been adopted in presenting and interpreting research information, and the questionnaire was used as a main tool in collecting data and information on an intended sample that includedspecialized department heads, divisional directors, officers, and personnel by issuing the national card within a sample of the Baghdad civil status directorates / al-Karrada al-Sharqya, New Baghdad, and Al-Sadr City (numbered 130) the number is reached to130.
The research has adopted exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis as basic structural tests for the validity of the adopted standards, a set of descriptive statistical measures, Pearson correlation coefficient (Structural Equation Modeling) to measure influence relationships, these methods have been used by Excel statistical (Microsoft software Excel v.2010, SPSS v.24, Amos v.23).
It was through the research that a set of recommendations was reached, the most important of which is that the National Card Affairs Directorate must pay more attention a great importance to strategic flexibility through the flexibility of human capital, the flexibility of information, and the flexibility of expansion due to its great role in achieving the strategic performance that will be reflected positively in the service of citizens.

The present research aims to determine the impact relationships and the relationship between strategic thinking skills and strategic response processes at the level of a sample of medical and nursing staff working in private hospitals in the holy province of Karbala, where the measurement of strategic thinking skills through three dimensions are (meditation, organizational thinking and reformulation) Strategic response processes were measured in four dimensions (resource liquidity, business process maturity, business response to the environment and proactive business to the environment), and the research relied on a descriptive and analytical approach to the collection and analysis of research information. The questionnaire was used to collect data and information from a sample of (218) of the medical and nursing staff of the hospital staff. The natural distribution test, empirical factor analysis, descriptive statistics, simple correlation analysis (Pearson), structural equation modeling (SEM) were used. And Path Analysis through statistical programs (Microsoft Excel 2010, SPSS V.25, Amos V.23). The research reached a number of conclusions, the most important of which was the presence of a direct significant significance of strategic thinking skills in the strategic response processes, as well as a set of recommendations, the most important of which is the need to fully orient towards the development of strategic thinking skills of its members doctors and nurses in order to ensure the improvement of their ability To achieve strategic response to various environmental conditions.

The study aimed to measure the banking efficiency of a sample of Iraqi private commercial banks for the period from 2005 - 2016 and to know the concepts of banking efficiency and its relationship to performance, effectiveness and productivity, as well as an analysis of banking efficiency, and to achieve the goals of this study, the data envelope analysis method has been applied to the data of (10) Iraqi commercial banks Especially for the period 2005 - 2016 using the variable size return method (VRS).
The study used a set of financial indicators and statistical equations to reach its results, the results of the financial analysis indicated that there is a difference in the average banking efficiency of commercial banks for the study sample, and that the most important recommendations presented by the study, the need for commercial banks for the study sample to adopt scientific and objective methods and methods that are It would increase the efficiency of its banking operations.

This research aims to determine the impact of the Lean marketing system on the competitive advantage in some Iraqi private banks, as the research attempted to provide a theoretical framework for the most important topics presented by writers and researchers on research variables as well as an analytical practical framework for the views of a selected sample within the research community that included administrative leaders in banks (managers) Banks, their assistants, department heads, and people’s heads) The sample size reached (100) persons and represented the independent variable by Lean marketing in its six dimensions (reducing excessive marketing operations, reducing waiting time, reducing excessive processing, reducing unnecessary movements, reducing the brain Defective marketing requests, stimulating the untapped talent and creativity of workers) and the approved variable is the competitive advantage in its four dimensions (cost, quality, flexibility, delivery).
The research reached a set of conclusions, the most important of which (the main and subsidiary hypotheses related to the research were validated by the existence of a correlation and impact between the variables of the research). As for the most important recommendations (the need to take care of spreading the culture of eliminating waste in all its forms among workers in the various productive and service organizations, especially banking ones).