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Enterprise Agility

By : Sunil Mundra
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Enterprise Agility

By: Sunil Mundra

Overview of this book

The biggest challenge enterprises face today is dealing with fast-paced change in all spheres of business. Enterprise Agility shows how an enterprise can address this challenge head on and thrive in the dynamic environment. Avoiding the mechanistic construction of existing enterprises that focus on predictability and certainty, Enterprise Agility delivers practical advice for responding and adapting to the scale and accelerating pace of disruptive change in the business environment. Agility is a fundamental shift in thinking about how enterprises work to effectively deal with disruptive changes in the business environment. The core belief underlying agility is that enterprises are open and living systems. These living systems, also known as complex adaptive systems (CAS), are ideally suited to deal with change very effectively. Agility is to enterprises what health is to humans. There are some foundational principles that can be broadly applied, but the definition of healthy is very specific to each individual. Enterprise Agility takes a similar approach with regard to agility: it suggests foundational practices to improve the overall health of the body—culture, mindset, and leadership—and the health of its various organs: people, process, governance, structure, technology, and customers. The book also suggests a practical framework to create a plan to enhance agility.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Enterprise Agility
About Packt
Forewords
Endorsements
Contributors
Preface
Other Books You May Enjoy
Index

Chapter 14. Framework for Action

Just as a person-specific action plan is prepared when an individual's health needs to be improved, in a similar way, each enterprise must prepare an action plan for enhancing agility. Being a complex adaptive system (CAS), the parts of the organization are not only interdependent but their interactions also lead to dynamic and nonlinear evolution. This leads to each organization being a unique system, and hence the plan and approach to enhancing agility must be created based on the specific context of the organization.

This chapter covers a topic that is worthy of a book by itself. Given the constraints of condensing the material into a single chapter, this chapter should not be treated as a playbook, but as a set of guidelines that can be considered while preparing the enterprise-level plan for enhancing agility.

This chapter explores the following topics:

  • Leadership alignment on the need for change

  • Redefining/validating the purpose of the enterprise

  • Defining...