Competitive Agility. Importance, Benefits and How To's

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Train Employees to Cope with Competitive Agility in Grasping Work Environment Yeshwant Moodliar, Consultant, India, Member In India as in the rest of the world, the environment is fast changing and this change is affecting individuals and their work environment. Orga...

Competitive Agility in Grasping Work Environment Nick Anderson, Business Consultant, United States, Member We started out with concerns about change management and its apparent poor track record. From Kotter in ’96 to McKinsey in 200...

Building Competitive Agility as I See It Gokhale Shrirang, Management Consultant, India, Member @Yeshwant Moodliar : I agree with you regarding the situation in India. I see following points... - Organizatio...

Recipe for Increasing Agility Peter Dragen, Business Consultant, Sweden, Member I think agility has primarily to do with the size and authority of the decision body (eg. the business unit / profit center). Decrease the team...

Competitive Agility. Importance, Benefits and How To's Mahmoud I agree with the valuable issues and thoughts presented here. Competitive agility primarily needs a

Creating Competitive Agility Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos, Business Consultant, Greece, Member Hi Nick, your statement on competitive agility is excellent! I would add one more element on becoming agile and staying so: equally flexible and ad...

Change Management Based on Prior Preparations Saeed Khodaee, Director, Iran, Member Changing anything significant in a workplace is highly dependent upon the preparations made to the workplace. Training plays a dominant role in this s...

Competitive Agility : A Cultural Factor and a Leadership Issue Antonio Luiz Pontes, Consultant, Brazil, Member Agility is a cultural factor and therefore should be a characteristic of leadership within the company. Only when this potential is properly id...

Recipe for Success in an Ever Changing Business Environment Nasir Cader, Student (Other), Member Adapt or perish. We should always keep abreast of what is going on around us not only in own own country but in the whole world....

Agility is Basically a Top Management Game Akbar Shaikh, Management Consultant, Member I believe that agility is basically a top management game. If they are ready to focus on some current opportunity, they can capitalize on it by accept...

To Achieve Strategic Agility, Competitive Agility become a Permanent Observer Victor Manuel Meneses Torres, Consultant, Mexico, Member I would add a recommendation about how to become agile: you must become a permanent observer and analyst of the environment and the trends, and...

Agility and the Requiring Environment Nick Anderson, Business Consultant, United States, Member We talk of the agile culture but how do we achieve such as state? One element is the requiring env...

Change Management: Challenges and Success V SHRIDHAR, Consultant, India, Member An organization is a union of people which may be from different regions, culture, religion but are working towards one goal. To bring about a 'change...

What Creates Agility in Management Sokolova Tatiana, Analyst, Russian Federation, Member No doubt agility or flexibility of a company (or a human being) in a constantly changing surrounding is a very important feature which enables them to...

Instilling the Ability to Respond to Change as a Strategy Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia, Member Strategy at a holistic level can be everything a company does, or consists of and does not need to run in one direction (Mintzberg & Lampbel, 1999). <...

Agile like a Brontosaurus Donald Ross, United States, Member I have worked as a physician administrator in a large hospital which is part of a large system. Change is extremely slow and usually reactive. When as...

Competitive Agility of Companies geevis Agile companies have an active management, which watches market trends, opportunities and quickly develops marketable solutions, products. ...

Agility and Required Environment sweety @Nick Anderson : if the leader's perspective and the board of directors' and middle management's perspective are ali...

Agility here is Coping with Unrest Amin Safi, CEO, Jordan, Member We in Jordan are highly affected by the radical changes in political social systems which lead to unstable business environment. Besides, the always c...

Corporate Brontosauruses Sokolova Tatiana, Analyst, Russian Federation, Member @Donald Ross: not only hospitals seem to be a Brontosaurus. I'm really far from an idealistic idea of a corporation....

Agility and Preemption Richard Teo, CEO, Papua New Guinea, Member Agility and preemption go together as in chess. The ability to flex and change must have the future management in a contingent mood and stance. A...

How to change - Implement the change Deepu Sugathan, Management Consultant, United States, Member Business agility is the capability of a business to change in the way it 'should'. This means, the capability to determine 'HOW' (what and when) it sh...

Competitive Agility and Criticial Mass Arthur Panton, Consultant, Kenya, Member @Peter Dragen: agreed absolutely. The larger the mass, the larger the inertia. Keep it small, concentrate the power....

Competitive Agility and Role of Mentor srinivas, Lecturer, India, Member Small changes can be effectively implemented by having a strong mentor - mentee relationship in competitive agili...

Agility and Change Management Nick Anderson, Business Consultant, United States, Member @Sweety: I agree alignment can lead to transparency. Unfortunately, the need for leader alignment is not well recogn...

Competitive Agility And Role of Mentor David Webster Smith, Management Consultant, United Kingdom, Member @Srinivas: I understand the process of learning Srinivas, but please tell me how to unlearn....

Unlearning and Competitive Agility srinivas, Lecturer, India, Member @David Webster Smith : to unlearn things of the past...

How to Create an Agile Company and Instill Change V SHRIDHAR, Consultant, India, Member Business agility is to change as per the market conditions. This is essential for any business to run smoothly and keep afloat, abating the tides of c...

Agility is a State of Mind Vaibhav Behere Agile is the buzzword in every industry now-a-days. I have started to feel that agility is a state of mind rather than the change itself. Be...

Human Behavior is an Essential Factor for the Requiring Environment for Competitive Agility M. Srivastava, Project Manager, India, Member The requiring environment for the agility is most complex to explain. But it includes the human behavior along situations at different positions in an...

Agility ... so Important for Leaders amneh masswadi , Financial Consultant, Jordan, Member Dear Nick Anderson, I agree with you. Competitive agility is one of the most important skills of leaders to adapt to change, besides

Embracing the Spirit of Agility in an Ever-changing Environment Joy Mogale, HR Consultant, South Africa, Member I see agility as sensitivity to change that one (an organization) has anticipated and adapting to it with a positive mind, meditating on the expected ...

Requirements for Competitive Agility VENKATESWARAN, Teacher, India, Member While there are Research and Development people in manufacturing industries for product development, the same is often lacking in service product deli...

Agile Team Member Categorization Vaibhav Behere @M. Srivastava: as you have mentioned, human behaviour varies a lot, from one change to another, from person to pers...

The Role of Mentoring in Achieving Competitive Agility srinivas, Lecturer, India, Member In my view mentoring plays an important role in agile team. A senior can pair with a junior member, so that the t...

To Achieve Strategic Agility, Competitve Agility Become a Permanent Observer Mahmoud @Victor Manuel Meneses Torres : I fully agree with your recommendation that to become agile, you must be a permanen...

Agility in Management Sokolova Tatiana, Analyst, Russian Federation, Member We can talk about secondary factors like training programs, reward schemes and exposure of global industry and so on, but the main issue lies within t...

Analysis of Agile Teams M. Srivastava, Project Manager, India, Member @Vaibhav Behere: team analysis needs to be done using independent check sheet, group check sheets and other human be...

Competitive Agility and Organizational Hierarchy srinivas, Lecturer, India, Member A flat organization structure also helps to enable competitive, agile organisations to ma...

Consider Nothing as Fixed Cecyle Felix, CEO, Congo, Member Great topic and comments to all! Thanks... I want to add that we cannot resist to the change; we have to accept it with an agile state of mind;...

Strategic Agility in Hospital Organizations Prof. Dr. Jekabs U. Leititis, Professor, Germany, Member @Donald Ross: I have made the same experiences being member of the top management of a hospital group as well in sec...

Creating an Agile Organization Nick Anderson, Business Consultant, United States, Member Many see their world as complex, but do organizations need to be complex as a result? Under pressure you’ll see CEOs feeling the need for more control...

Competitive Agility, It's Importance and Benefits Nhamo Phinias, HR Consultant, Member Interesting stuff. I am happy to be on this site. Always usefull information; information which I can apply in real life situations to achieve my goal...

Creating an Agile Organisation Arthur Panton, Consultant, Kenya, Member @Nick Anderson: Creating an agile organisation can be a high risk factor, so one needs to define the lower ech...

Competitive Agility in Grasping Work Environment Yeshwant Moodliar, Consultant, India, Member In the present changing environment this factor assumes lot of importance. In my opinion there are two prime issues viz: 1. Company must have a <...

Competitive Agility. Importance of Smartness Emmanuel Duru, Analyst, Nigeria, Member Competitive agility is the application of genuine and smart business strategies to gain greater market share within a business environment; taking cog...

Your Request for Focusing Change to Win Nick Anderson, Business Consultant, United States, Member @Amneh Masswadi : Hi Amneh, here's the link to the

Competitive Smartness Mahmoud @Emmanuel Duru : I admire your comment on competitive agility..., that actually smartness should be adopted and sus...

Agility, Persistence and the Trust-Risk Relationship Nick Anderson, Business Consultant, United States, Member Trust is a lubricant for risk. Leaders must ask "where is risk?" - both real risk and perceived. This is the inevitable friction point... Unders...

Change is Current State of Business Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia, Member Prepare employees for change - at the moment it's the right state of business. If you don't keep moving, even though you think that you are on the rig...

Change is Current State of Business Emmanuel Duru, Analyst, Nigeria, Member @Gary Jones : Change is dynamic and so also is business. Change is like the stream of a river; if you step into it ...