Operational Agility

Knowledge Center

• About
• Home
• Dictionary
• Encyclopedia
• Question?
• Views

• Register
• Log in
• Help

• Change & Organization
• Communication & Skills
• Decision-making & Valuation
• Ethics & Responsibility
• Finance & Investing
• HRM
• Knowledge & Intangibles
• Leadership
• Marketing
• Program & Project
• Strategy
• Supply Chain & Quality

Description of Operational Agility. Explanation.

Definition Operational Agility. Description.

Operational Agility is a company's ability or capacity to find and seize opportunities to improve operations and processes, within a focused business model.

Examples of the above opportunities are:

• Introduction of new products or services,
• Cost reductions,
• Quality improvements,
• Refinements to logistic processes

Specific organizational capabilities to be operationally agile include (Donald Sull in HBR, February 2009):

• Accurate and detailed real-time market data
• Focused corporate priorities
• Clear performance goals
• Control and reward mechanisms

Besides those mentioned by Donald Sull, additional organizational competences to achieve a high degree of operational agility are:

• Flexible HR arrangements (flex working, flex benefits)
• Flexible IT systems, Telecom systems, software development (allowing to make changes relatively easy)
• Agile project management / change management approaches

Operational Agility Special Interest Group Special Interest Group (38 members)

Operational Agility Forum   Recent topics   Agile Project and Change Management Approaches As in any change project, the affected resources need to be prepared so they can adopt the change. This is more difficult in agile projects as the sol...           Human Agility (Individual Agility) - Response-ability The systematic classification by 12manage of agility into strategic, portfolio, organisational & operational is rather good. My view is that cut...           Advantages and Disadvantages of Flex Working? Following points among others can be considered as advantages and disadvantages of having flexible working hours: Advantages: A1. Empl...

Best Practices - Operational Agility   Agile IT / Systems / Software Development In IT systems, there is a development methodology for agile projects and the goal is to build a system with the minimum elements necessary for buildin...

Expert Tips - Operational Agility   How to Become a Self-tuning Enterprise: Advanced Experimenters       Bureaucratic Organizations versus Dynamic Organizations     Advance yourself in business administration and management

Resources - Operational Agility Organizational Agility: 8 Building Blocks   Organizational Agility and the Role of Information Systems   The Essense of Organizational Agility     News about Operational Agility         Videos about Operational Agility         Presentations about Operational Agility         Books about Operational Agility         More about Operational Agility       Accelerate your management career

Compare with: Portfolio Agility  |  Strategic Agility  |  Organizational Agility  |  Organizational Absorption  |  Agile Absorption  |  Crisis Management  |  First-mover Advantage  |  Just in Time

Return to Management Hub: Change & Organization  |  Human Resources  |  Strategy  |  Supply Chain & Quality

More on Management  |  Return to Management Dictionary  | 

This ends our Operational Agility summary and forum.