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Format: 1 online resource (XIII, 291 p.)

ISBN: 9783110637267

Content: 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)

Note: Frontmatter -- , Preface -- , Contents -- , Key Abbreviations Used -- , 1 Exploiting Agility for Advantage -- , 2 What is Organisational Agility? -- , 3 Prudent Opportunism -- , 4 Leading Agile Enterprises -- , Bibliography for Part I -- , 5 Introduction to Part II: Using the EAfA Process to Exploit Agility for Advantage -- , 6 Step One – Orientating: What is known about achieving requisite agility? -- , 7 Step Two – Predicting: How might we need to change in the future? -- , 8 Step Three – Diagnosing: Do we have the capabilities to be agile? -- , 9 Step Four – Envisioning: What will we be like when we are requisitely agile? -- , 10 Step Five – Scoping: Where, when and how, do we need to be agile? -- , 11 Step Six – Customising: What types of agility do we need? -- , 12 Step Seven – Delivering: How can we make progress? -- , Bibliography for Part II -- , 13 Theory, References and Follow-Up Reading -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110637458

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110636451

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110637267

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110637267

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110637267

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110637267

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110637267