Databases and Organisational Agility in the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board in Bayelsa State, Nigeria

Abstract

This paper investigated the relationship between databases and organisational agility in the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board in Bayelsa State. To guide this study, the researcher adopted the case study design. 67 management level staff of theBoard made up the population. Data was collected using a mail questionnaire. The validity of the instrument was ensured through expert opinion and reliability was measured using the Cronbach-alpha technique with all the items scoring above 0.70%. The Nunnally (1978) alpha threshold of 0.7 constituted the basis for determining reliability. The Likert 5-point scale was adopted. The hypotheses were tested using the Pearson Product Correlation coefficient. The paper concluded that a strong positive and significant association exists between databases and organisational agility. Based on the findings, the researcher recommends that the management Board should strategically position and make information readily available to facilitate learning and sensing the changing market conditions, as well as developing a strategy for gathering and storing quality information to enable them to make timely decisions to improve the organization's effectiveness. It should encourage the promotion, dissemination and transfer of information to facilitate and enhance the firm's performance in a dynamic environment.