Business agility as an answer

In the context of the enterprise, agility It is the ability of the organization to anticipate an opportunity or threat, adapt and react efficiently and effectively. That is why we say that the Business agility is three-dimensional:

On the one hand, it has a strategic dimension that allows it to detect and take advantage of new innovation opportunities before competitors.

1. It has a tactical dimension that gives it the ability to transfer resources, organizational talent, and management focus to new strategic initiatives.
2. And finally, an operational dimension that allows it to maintain results and at the same time explore the new opportunities of a complex world of accelerated change.

Six Distinguishing Features of Agile Organizations

While there are many different forms of business agility, successful agile organizations share a set of novel practices and distinctive traits that include:

1. Agile organizations have a common purpose that allows the collective creation of value. It acts as a guide and allows new operating structures and new models of value creation to be reimagined for all parties involved, customers, employees, partners and partners.
2. They have a shared and transformative leadership. Leaders with credibility, self-confidence and perseverance. Capable of understanding and inspiring others, connecting emotionally and achieving a greater identification of their collaborators with the shared purpose and objectives of the organization.
3. They have enough
   ambidextrous professionals
   with the ability to effectively balance the exploitation of the current business and the exploration of new opportunities. Professionals with initiative, who are alert to new opportunities and who act as connectors, always seek to build internal and external links, favor open innovation and are born creators of social capital.
4. They work through a network of flexible, multidisciplinary and trained teams. The
   Redarchy
   is the natural structure of agile organizations, because it facilitates innovation and makes it possible for entrepreneurs within the organization to opt for those contributions that motivate them the most and that best align with their own skills.
5. Use rapid decision-making and learning cycles. They work in rapid cycles of thought and action, dividing work into small cycles; executing in short bursts, following agile methodologies and self-managed teams with passion for what they do. The focus on people is at the heart of culture and leadership, engaging and empowering everyone in the organization to create value quickly, collaboratively, and effectively.
6. Leveraging technologies exponential to drive new products and services and new business models based on platforms and ecosystems. And operationally they radically rethink their underlying technologies to work in collaborative networks in rapid iterations, and achieve greater speed of deployment and flexibility through new agile practices and tools.

Together, these traits allow organizations to balance stability and dynamism to thrive in a complex and uncertain world but also one of unprecedented opportunities.

Where to start business agile transformation?

There are many companies that have been betting on agility as a key lever to accelerate their digital transformation for several years and the projects in which I have collaborated have allowed me to see first-hand that the difficulty of applying agility at a business level, beyond software development teams, is not so much in the processes, nor in the methods, as in the culture of the organizations and their structures.

Therefore, what follows is to ask ourselves where to start? Since agility is not a matter of technology or processes but of structure, values and culture, what we really need are new mental models to design and lead our organizations in a time of accelerated change. New organizational structures capable of exploiting the current business and exploring new opportunities and new systemic models for change, in order to involve the entire organization in the necessary Enterprise Agile Transformation.

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