Agile organizations adapt to and create change more successfully than competitors and are able to capitalize on the opportunities emerging around them. Unlike, non-agile organizations that whither in the face of market and technological changes, business uncertainties and complexities.
As the business landscapes continue to change in a rapid and disruptive ways – coupled with high level of unpredictabilities, organizations that will survive and thrive will be those that will consistently demonstrate agility in the face of any circumstance.
Your organizational agility which is simply your organization’s capability to recognize, deal with and exploit opportunities in this continuously changing and demanding environment is majorly what will determine your performance, growth and sustainability. This is why the Economist Intelligence Poll showed that nearly 90% of executives indicate that agility is essential to business success and it is a critical pathway to higher revenues, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency.
Agile organizations adapt to and create change more successfully than competitors and are able to capitalize on the opportunities emerging around them. Unlike, non-agile organizations that whither in the face of market and technological changes, business uncertainties and complexities.
Working with diverse CEOs and having had the privilege of a one on one interaction with Rome Business School executive MBA students where I teach strategic management, I found that there is still a big gap between awareness of the need for organizational agility and organizations actually taking time to institutionalize agility capabilities.
I have always been reminding CEOs and leaders of organizations that the most proactive way to compete if they really want to make a difference for their organizations is to compete through marketplace agility. Now more than ever, marketplace agility would require all workforce regardless of level, role or position to engage in proactive, adaptive, and generative behaviors, bolstered by a supportive mindset.
Bringing this home, dynamic organizations compete, and uniquely make money, in complex and unpredictable marketplace through market place agility, and in practice, dynamic organizations develop marketplace agility through organizational agility. And a key vehicle to drive organizational agility is through human resources strategy and especially through the mindset and behaviours of employees towards building marketplace agility.
As a CEO of a company who builds organizational agility for clients, I have a thorough understanding of the critical importance of every organization having agility oriented mindset in driving their business to success in these tough, unpredictable and challenging times and this is why we have championed agility capability development in Nigeria.
By enrolling your executives, senior management, functional managers and managers at our upcoming Building Organizational Agility in Tough Times Program, taking place July 16-18, 2018 in Parkview Astoria Hotel, Parkview Estate, Ikoyi, Nigeria, your organization will bridge the agility gap and would be able to react successfully to the emergence of new competitors, the development of new industry-changing technologies, or sudden shifts in overall market conditions.
After this agility program, your people will be well equipped to make your organization more competitive and profitable as they begin to move quickly to adapt, learn fast and act on challenges, opportunities and emerging trends.
Wouldn’t your organization rather build this rare capability?
Let’s join hands in building agile organizations.
