Enterprise Agility: Being Agile In A Changing World

Enterprise Agility is a practical framework for enhancing agility and equipping your company with the tools to survive. The biggest challenge enterprises face today is dealing with fast-paced change in all spheres of business. Enterprise Agility shows how an enterprise can address this challenge head-on and thrive in a dynamic environment. Avoiding the mechanistic construction of existing enterprises that focus on predictability and certainty, Enterprise Agility delivers practical advice for responding and adapting to the scale and accelerating pace of disruptive change in the business environment. Agility is a fundamental shift in thinking about how enterprises work to effectively deal with disruptive changes in the business environment. The core belief underlying agility is that enterprises are open and living systems. These living systems, also known as complex adaptive systems (CAS), are ideally suited to deal with change very effectively. Agility is to enterprises what health is to humans. There are some foundational principles that can be broadly applied, but the definition of healthy is very specific to each individual. Enterprise Agility takes a similar approach with regard to it suggests foundational practices to improve the overall health of the body, culture, mindset, and leadership and the health of its various people, processes, governance, structure, technology, and customers. The book also suggests a practical framework to create a plan to enhance agility. Enterprise Agility is a tool for anyone with the motivation to influence outcomes in an enterprise, who aspires to improve agility. Readers from the following backgrounds will include chief executive officer, chief information officer, people/human resource director, information technology director, head of change program, head of transformation, and Agile coach/consultant.