business agility

A Formula to Measure Business Agility

April 30, 2014

This weekend I spent an afternoon sitting in a coffee house in my downtown Chicago neighborhood pondering what it means to be agile and how to measure it. The place was busy but I got lucky and snagged the cushy armchair next to the plate glass window in front that looks out on the sidewalk […]

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A Process for Strategic Agility [Instead of Strategic Planning]

April 30, 2014

Gone are the days when information technology strategies could be rigid multi-year plans. A company’s goals remain reasonably steady over a two to four year period but the IT strategies employed to accomplish those goals need to be agile; they need to be continuously adjusted. Like setting a ship’s course to reach a distant port, […]

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Massively Multiplayer Online Games as Business Collaboration Platforms

April 30, 2014

One of the fastest growing trends in video games is where multiple players play together. Players are not as interested in competing one-to-one as they are in forming guilds or corporations with other players and working together to accomplish common goals. Collaboration may be more powerful than competition. And these games are setting standards for […]

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Harnessing Feedback Loops to Drive Business Agility

April 30, 2014

You came into work recently and realized a customer or a product or a whole economy had finally lost your trust and you no longer believed it was stable. And you’re right; it isn’t stable. Welcome to the 21st century. So why keep trying to organize and operate your business as if the world was […]

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Five Traits of an Agile Enterprise – Part 1

April 30, 2014

The first trait of an agile organization is transparency because that’s the foundation for trust. And agility is built on trust.

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