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
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Agile Project and Change Management Approaches
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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 cutting across all levels is the human aspect of agility competency. I would think the following...
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Agile IT / Systems / Software Development
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Operational Agility Special Interest Group
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How to Become a Self-tuning Enterprise: Advanced Experimenters
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Usage (application): Organizational Development, Organizational Agility
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Usage (application): Agile Organization, Adaptive Organization, Organizational Adaptability, Organizational Flexibility
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Organizational Agility and the Role of Information Systems
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Usage (application): Organizational Agility
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The Essense of Organizational Agility
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Usage (application): Organizational Agility, Strategic Agility
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Compare with: Portfolio Agility | Strategic Agility | Organizational Agility | Organizational Absorption | Agile Absorption | Crisis Management |
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