Agility is essential in the age of digitalisation
Check and adjust: Pizza, pasta, agility
Imagine a plate of spaghetti. If you pull or even slurp at a noodle, no computer or would-be spaghetti analyst, no matter how powerful, can predict the most effective way to untangle the pasta knot. So there is nothing left to do but pull on the noodle that looks the most promising. If the noodle gives way, keep pulling, but if it doesn’t, you’ll have to pull on the mountain of spaghetti again. It is therefore important to follow a step-by-step procedure to solve the spaghetti confusion. The longer you do this, the more experience you will have with each additional year of life. This empirical process control is a proven agile approach.
The principle is called Inspect and Adapt.
Achieving agility in companies
It is no secret that we cannot simply carry on as before. But is it really worth all the effort it takes to make your company agile? YES! This is the only way to be able to operate successfully on the market in 10 or 20 years’ time
We are living in an age in which events are happening at a rapid pace. Globalisation and digitalisation are making the business world ever more dynamic, complex and uncertain. As a result, the pressure to compete and innovate is also increasing. Today, you simply can’t win a flower pot with the tried and tested, traditional service by the book.
VUKA: the agile victory for your company
In the business world, there is a term for these radically changing framework conditions:
VUCA: changeable – uncertain – complex – ambiguous.
In the VUCA world, those who fail to adapt quickly enough to new conditions lose out.
Agility means change – and it’s in the fast lane
We often don’t even realise how fast change is happening. For example, it wasn’t so long ago that we managed our everyday lives without smartphones and apps. When a new technology or service has more than 50 million users, it has achieved a breakthrough.
Digitalisation: the more social and mobile, the faster
It took 75 years before this was the case with the telephone. For mobile phones, on the other hand, it was only 12 years before this mark was reached. With virtual services, things are moving even faster: it took Facebook three years to reach 50 million users, and 19 days for the game Pokémon Go.
Times are changing rapidly. Complex overall analyses of the market and corporate planning based on them are therefore often outdated before they are completed. Accordingly, you should not plan what cannot be planned, but take steps that seem sensible now.
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