Historically, agile change was used for Agile Software Development & Delivery coupled with an opportunity for growth. With the ever-changing market, digitisation of the world and evolving customer demands organisations are realising the need for new ways of working, and more often a shift to an agile way of working. To be truly successful, the creation of an Agile or Adaptive organisation must be done at a cultural level.
Allegra Consulting has successfully supported several organisations in the move to agile ways of working. At Allegra we believe that organisations going through this type of change need to look at creating an agile organisation. To make this move successfully, organisations also need to manage the mindset, skillset and behaviour changes required of teams and employees.
An agile or adaptive organisation is highly attuned to the internal and external environment and has the agility to pivot in a new direction in response to rapid changes and new opportunities. Its identity and people are well aligned with the organisation's purpose. It is fast, flexible, collaborative and entrusts more of its decision-making powers and associated resources to its people.
An agile or adaptive team (sometimes called a tribe, squad, swarm, unit, cluster) has clarity of purpose and is closely aligned with the organisation's values and priorities. Team members recognise that their external environment is volatile and as a result, they are extremely sensitive to their continually changing environment. They ably and willingly move vertically or horizontally to where they can have the most positive impact.
An agile or adaptive employee has an open, flexible mindset.
This employee is comfortable with ambiguity and is always looking for ways to collaborate with others. He/she offers up ideas, creates opportunities for others to shine and knows the value of innovating even if at times they get it wrong.
Stop doing AGILE and start BEING AGILE.
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