Competitive Agility. Importance, Benefits and How To's




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Nick Anderson
Business Consultant, United States

Competitive Agility. Importance, Benefits and How To's

In our survey report 'Competitive Agility - Anytime, Anywhere, on Anything', many contributors see change agility as more important than all other factors.

Why is agility so important?
- Adaptability to change, anytime, anywhere, on anything can be seen as stable and helps build integrity and trust with customers.- Being nimble and adaptable to market requirements creates opportunities for early market entry. Delivering such agility and flexibility internally drives innovation externally.
- Agility is change embracing and develops pre-emptive ability. Agile companies are more likely to initiate change and gain competitive advantage over larger, slower moving corporations.
- Agility allows a company to do business and not spend time reacting to problems and issues. Embracing agility as how we do it around here, rather than striving to maintain the status quo means you are more likely to deliver customer value.
It follows, for many contributors, that agility leads to deeper relationships internally and with customers. This is a key driver for sustained growth.

The need for competitive agilityOther valuable outcomes are that agility tends to:
- Be unique and hard to duplicate (Editor: compare VRIN)
- Can correct bad practices more quickly.
- Have a better chance of being more profitable than their less responsive competitors
- Be dynamic and can successfully make adjustments to maintain profitability
- More responsive to customers, markets and new opportunities
- As one person said: "For one thing, your competitor has to reckon with a 'moving target' which is always more difficult to compete with!"
- Keeping an eye on what is happening in the market and be ready to change. Change preparedness to turn on a dime is that ability to adapt to and implement change easily.
It follows that agile companies have change processes and change management policies that can be activated with ease.

Becoming agile
Many contributors commented on how to become more agile:
1.Take small steps toward great results
2. Develop the ability to change as a core competency
3. Adapt core competencies to what environmental forces dictate
4. Don’t have frozen protocols...
Please share any additional thoughts about how we can build competitive agility... Thanks...
 

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