OK, I’m not going to spend too much time on this blog talking about Agility but I thought I should at least position it a bit and explain why it’s important enough to be considered one of the 6.
In our personal lives, many of us have become quite agile without ever realising it (or without the pain and humiliation of attempting yoga). Every day, we accept changes in the way we do things without thinking about it, yet somehow, the minute we cross the threshold into work it changes – why?
Just as in other areas, the changes that happen outside of the workplace are increasingly going to permeate inside. Think about the potential for “mash-ups” for how we as employees carry out our role within the organsation. What will the empowerment of consumerisation bring to our roles?
Again, we need to be organisationally agile and increasingly resilient to change. We have to move from big (monolithic?) projects that span multiple years to lots of little initiative focused on delivering change on a much smaller timescale (30-90 days). I know what you’re thinking – “Chaos!” Right?, well possibly, but what it does, is puts incredible importance on you all agreeing on what it is you want to be.
If the organisation is aligned along a few key principles and values, you can take away some of the rigour and process that needed to ensure alignment.
So what is it that makes us agile outside of work and inflexible inside? Or is it just that our expectations are just so wildly different?
