Kristin JonesSocial Media Specialist III| PMINewtown Square, Pa, United States
What would you say are the hottest topics in the area of organizational agility today? What would you like to learn about in this area? Saving Changes...
Horia SlusanschiKaizen Artist| The Agility CollectiveParaparaumu, New Zealand
What do we really mean when we say "organizational agility"? How would we determine that one organization is agile and another is not?
What cultural traits do agile organisations share? What specific skills and techniques do they have in common? What unusual skills (if any) enhance business agility? What preparation/training/background is conducive to achieving organisational agility? What leadership styles work best in agile organizations? Is there a "secret recipe" for achieving organizational agility? Saving Changes...
Peter HalasiPM Consultant| Enabling ExcellenceBonstetten, Schweiz, Switzerland
How can traditional corporations cope with the fast paced technological advance? E.g. can traditional banks really just do the technological developments without radically changing mindset, upgrade skills, redefine processes and organisational structure, culture, etc? Saving Changes...
Braden KelleyHuman-Centered Design, Innovation, Change and Transformation Leader| Best Selling Author and Keynote SpeakerIssaquah, Wa, United States
It is important to define what we mean by organizational agility before discussing it.
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."
One of the key measures of organizational agility could be referred to as the Triple-T metric:
Time
to
Transform
I would be happy to run a series of articles here on what Agile Change is, what organizational change is, and how to get better at both to improve your Triple-T performance.
All the best,
Braden (@innovate) Saving Changes...
Juan Escobar LopezSenior Project Professional| ENELBogota, Cundinamarca, Colombia
I think that hot topics to learn and discuss are:
1- Flexiblity
2- Change of Mind of the Organization.
3- Time
4- Cost to improve the Agility process.
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
See the Rick Dave´s book "Response Ability". Here you will find the key. What is critical is to really understand what agile is. It is not a method or methodology. It is not IT or software related only. The book show the answers from strategy formulation to strategy implementation. Saving Changes...
Gerhard TekesSenior PM and OPM Consultant| 3PTA - Project ManagementSalvador, Ba, Brazil
Recognizing the value, the viability of agility in all industries is a great move forward, but, risking that all agility folks will want to kill me, the biggest gain of discussing "Organizational Agility" is that we create awareness for the need of an organizational approach for to improve project success.
The primary Hot Topic on Organizational Agility is IMHO "OPM, Organizational Project Management" . Saving Changes...
Michael AdamsSolutions Architect| LANLLos Alamos, Nm, United States
I think that organizational agility may not necessitate an attempt to adopt agile project management, as the specific framework.
Your question really made me think of the idea of a learning organization, and an article I read on PMI about how NASA has evolved into a learning organization.
The article is a good read, and it demonstrates how a company can become an organization that is constantly looking for where it can improve and when it sees an opportunity, it pivots in order to improve. Saving Changes...
Priya PatraDelivery Director| Capgemini India Technology Services LtdMumbai, India
For me Organization agility is not only adapting agile practices to respond to business changes, but also how we transform the entire organization.. people.. process.. IT infrastructure.. Enterprise Architecture to be agile and flexible.
We may keep adapting agile practices, but if we don't have a flexible- agile infrastructure or architecture to support these practices we are compromising on agility. Saving Changes...
Braden KelleyHuman-Centered Design, Innovation, Change and Transformation Leader| Best Selling Author and Keynote SpeakerIssaquah, Wa, United States
To answer organizational agility, I have a simple question, "How to eat an elephant?"
No matter how large or complex your project is...
No matter how much scope is likely to change...
We as project managers wants to EAT the whole elephant, not in one big gulp, but piece by piece.
Break your projects not just in sub-projects or phases or stages...
Break it into much smaller time capsules, iterations or sprints. If we can do that we are creating the recipe for change acceptance and we are being flexible and open to any raving change in requirements anytime outside of the ongoing time capsule.
Now let us bring this concept of agility from our projects and implement it organization wide.
With a mindset of decomposition, managing time capsules or iterations consisting of doable work considering your team capacity and capability, being flexible to change... is it not something we cannot do outside of a project and inside of an organization.
Why are we so confused about Organizational Agility? It is because we are so tightly bound by our status quo limitation. We need to be a bit more creative and think out of the box. You will Organizational Agility is not an impossible idea and it is very workable.
Hope I drove my point of view home. Saving Changes...
