Agility is the New Nimble

Issue 5: June 3, 2021

Every generation a new business operating principle bubbles up into the professional organizational arena. Resilience has been updated with Agility (yes, we know it sounds like being Nimble, but it’s a lot more nuanced). Agility is a mainstay in the tech community – particularly with software development. Here’s a basic definition: “Business agility refers to rapid, continuous, and systematic evolutionary adaptation and entrepreneurial innovation directed at gaining and maintaining competitive advantage.” Simply stated, Agile management is methodical, systems thinking approach to preparing for the future.

About Systems Thinking

Systems thinking methodology is an outside-in view into an organization. Basically speaking, a system is the sum and interaction of its parts, not how a single focused group of parts is working.

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