Are you agile enough ?

In terms of agility, you could do yourself a favor and assess two simple factors;

Rate of Change:

• The rate at which your business climate change. That means market, competitors, regulators, politics, anything that has impact on your decisions.

Ability to Change:

• The time it takes for you to perform a change, from when you perceive a need till it is in effect – some frameworks call that End2End CycleTime.

Are you agile enough ?

• You are not strategically viable unless your Ability to Change matches the Rate Of Change – or you are a monopoly, publicly funded or have a very strong plan to increase your ability to change.

If being agile as a business means that you are able to respond effectively to changes both in the market and in your surroundings and you’re experiencing just that, you are better off than most organizations.

If you’re not experiencing that your organization is capable of responding to change in such a manner, then no, you are probably not agile enough.