Exploiting Agility for Advantage

A Step-by-Step Process for Acquiring Requisite Organisational Agility

David L. Francis

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9783110637458
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Organisational Development
• Index: Business

Many argue that all organisations should strive to be agile. Exploiting Agility for Advantage takes a radically different view. The author's research shows that requisite agility is required, meaning 'not too much, not too little, of the right type and delivering wanted agility deliverables'.

This is a book for managers who want their enterprise to be intelligently agile but don't know how to achieve this. Part One shows why agility is a strategic option for commercial and not-for-profit enterprises. Part Two describes, in detail, a seven-step agility-orientated development programme for work-groups or entire organisations. Part Three provides academic underpinning on organisational agility for researchers and students of management.

" Agility isn't easy and developing it is going to need much more than a simple slogan. This book offers very helpful insights into the detailed mechanisms that underpin this capability, and practical guidance around how to build and embed them." ( Prof. John Bessant )

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Key Abbreviations Used
• Part I: Requisite Agility
• Part II: The EAfA Process
• Part III: Resources
• Index