Business Agility requires a One Team mindset of co-creative efforts to achieve shared goals that span functions, teams, and divisions within the organization.
3. Business Agility
Business Agility is a set of organizational capabilities, behaviors, and ways of working
that affords your business the freedom, flexibility, and resilience to achieve its
purpose. No matter what the future brings.
4. Business Agility…
The ability of an organization to:
• Adapt quickly to the market changes
• Respond customer’s demand *promptly*
• Lead changes efficiently and effectively (Cost effective solution, without loosing
quality)
• Be disruptive
5. Why Business Agility?
Because:
• One can not always predict the future of business
• Ever changing customer’s expectations
• Technology is changing faster
• Competition is always tough
7. One Team
Business Agility requires a One Team mindset of co-creative efforts to achieve
shared goals that span functions, teams, and divisions within the organization.
• High level of collaboration
• Continuous improvement
• Transparency
• Accountability
• Empowered
• …..
8. But How?
Business Agility requires a One Team mindset of co-creative efforts to achieve
shared goals that span functions, teams, and divisions within the organization.
• Communicate the vision and purpose
• Team Charter
• Gain Buy-in
9. Measuring the maturity
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The organization operates with a culture of transparency
for all non-confidential information. This includes
decisions, decision rationale, business strategy, business
metrics, work status, and (with employee agreement)
salary information.
We have systems to promote transparency and information
sharing across all levels of our organization. People have the ability
to pull any relevant information they need to make decisions or
deliver value.
All individuals have access to key information & strategic
decisions so that they can make appropriate decisions.
Relevant information is available to anyone who requires it, yet
the process to gain access is cumbersome and bureaucratic.
Crawl
Walk
Run
Fly
Business agility is about thriving
It’s about taking the disruptive market and being disruptive
It’s about being at the forefront
It’s about taking the uncertainty and using it for your competitive advantage and your customer’s benefit.
Customer centric.
Business agility is concerned with the adoption and evolution of values, behaviours and capabilities. These enable businesses and individuals to be more adaptive, creative and resilient when dealing with complexity, uncertainty and change leading to improved well-being and better outcomes.
An agile business can respond quickly and effectively to opportunities and threats found in its internal and external environments (be they commercial, legal, technological, social, moral or political).
Businesses that embrace agile are able to adapt faster; delivering little and often, testing the environment and remaining customer focused.
Uncertainty can be handled more efficiently
Empowered – decision making
Communicate the vision: What value the business will deliver to the community, employee’s place in their society, employees should be able to proud of what they are doing.
Team Charter – Set the team direction, purpose, commitment, scope, members, outcome, supporting resources, reporting plan, deliverables.
Buy In: acceptance of and willingness to actively support and participate in something (such as a proposed new plan or policy
Keep teams small, eliminate politics, build a culture of “disagree but commit”, and develop a sense of accountability.