Measuring Organizational Agility: The Triple T Metric

Braden Kelley is an innovation and change specialist, the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire, an InnovationExcellence.com co-Founder, and is the creator of the Change Planning Toolkit™ and a book on the best practices and next practices of organizational change (January 2016 release).

  Agile   Change Management   Innovation  

There is an increasing amount of chatter and confusion out there around what organizational agility is--and a feeling that it must be important to organizational success. But before we discuss organizational agility, it is important to define what we mean by the term.

BusinessDictionary.com has a decent definition:

“The capability of a company to rapidly change or adapt in response to changes in the market. A high degree of organizational agility can help a company to react successfully to the emergence of new competitors, the development of new industry-changing technologies, or sudden shifts in overall market conditions.”

Usually, people begin speaking about organizational agility and its importance to the success of the organization when they speak about the increasing pace of change--and the challenge the organization faces in keeping up.

Because of this, one of the key measures of organizational agility you may want to consider using is one I like to call the Triple T Metric:

     Time
     to
     Transform

The metric is a measure of how long it takes an organization to make a transformation. But to measure your progress on the Triple T Metric over time, you must define it and measure it in a consistent manner. So, if a transformation is like a trip from Point A to Point…

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