This is the holistic challenge of embracing enterprise agility to create a flexible, adaptable, responsive, and more competitively fit organization. Achieving enterprise agility takes commitment. It means investing in people skills, in new tools and technology, and in a workplace organized to encourage teamwork. It requires making the organization’s culture flatter. It calls for adjusting decision-making styles, including the speed at which people make them. It means spending time and resources on change management to sustain these new ways of working. The effort pays off. Enterprise agility improves collaboration. It leads to a higher quality of products and services delivered. It speeds time to market for those offerings. It improves processes for creating demand (through marketing, sales, and R&D) and for generating supply (through production and distribution). It strengthens customer service. It boosts productivity.
