What if a company does not have Organizational Agility? “What If” Series
If a company lacks organizational agility, it can face several significant challenges: Inability to Respond to Market Changes: Without agility, a company may struggle to adapt to shifts in market conditions, customer preferences, or technological advancements. This can lead to missed opportunities and a loss of competitive edge. Decreased Innovation: Agility fosters an environment where […]
What if companies do not understand how organizational agility accelerates strategy execution? “What If” Series
Organizational Agility is indeed an accelerator of strategy execution. It helps to make things a reality. Let’s try to understand why: Rapid Adaptation: Agile organizations can quickly adjust their strategies in response to market changes, technological advancements, and evolving customer needs. This flexibility ensures that strategic initiatives remain relevant and effective. Efficient Decision-Making: Agility promotes […]
What if companies do not understand how Customer Experience is impacted by Organizational Agility? “What If” Series
If companies do not understand how organizational agility impacts customer experience, they may face several challenges: Delayed Responses to Customer Needs: Without agility, companies might be slow to respond to changing customer preferences and feedback. This can lead to dissatisfaction as customers feel their needs are not being met promptly. Inconsistent Customer Experience: Agile organizations […]
Organizational Agility as a Strategic Imperative
We are living in a time of great change. Bigger, faster, complex, cross-functional, and multi-disciplinary change. But at the same time, we are more connected and processing more information than we ever had in the past. To be successful in this environment of rapid, concurrent, and never-ending change, organizations must grow their change agility not […]
How impressive is your Organizational Agility Index?
Agility is critical for any business looking to thrive in the 21st. century. This quality empowers individuals, teams, and companies to innovate, satisfy customers’ changing needs and desires, and swiftly adapt to market shifts. Essentially, it is the ability to move quickly and smoothly. Being agile isn’t just for tech start-ups. Many types of companies […]
Agility: a critical competence for leaders
As ship captains set course for new lands and riches during the Age of Discovery, they were dealt a fair dose of mutinous crew members. Mutineers would become dissatisfied with the operation of the sailing vessels and leaders, and when left unmanaged, mutiny could turn into a violent overthrow of authority. We do not necessarily […]
Stop, start, or accelerate: from thinking about the new normal to making it work
As businesses reopen in the new normal, they need to balance between what worked before and what needs to happen to succeed. STOP: · Assuming that the old ways will come back. · Relying on traditional organizational structures. · Optimizing supply chains based on individual component cost and depending on a single supply source for critical materials. · Quarterly […]
How to restart in the New Normal
In 1665, Isaac Newton left Cambridge University to self-isolate and avoid the pandemic that was sweeping Europe. While working from home (Although at that time there was no internet available), he saw an apple fall. Pandemics press the fast-forward button on history, and Coronavirus is no exception. We are witnessing unprecedented and immediate change across […]
How to do business as unusual
Things are changing, there are new rules for the game, and surely; in a world where Digital Connectivity will continue positioning in the post-crisis, we will discover that new rules will come up every day and we all have to adapt to them and in the best-case scenario, learn to play with them. Schools will […]
Sooner or later, we need to bring our workforce back: How to do it in a safely way?
As we have been discussing in our last articles, entering the New Normal is just a matter of time. But what we all must make sure is that when that happens, we must do it in a safe manner. It is a reality that organizations across the world, no matter the size or their nature, […]