LEADING WITH AGILITY

Philipp Kristian Diekhöner

Chapter 16 in RESET:Rethinking Our World and Creating a Different Future, 2021, pp 203-213 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Agility and agile transformation have likely overtaken innovation as the most abused and least practised buzzword in business today. Why agility is misunderstood and mangled is a bit of a mystery. For starters, many people still believe agility is a method. Agility is an actionable way of referring to strategy and culture rooted in the Agile Manifesto. In only 68 words, it delineates the principles for effective software development. These principles have since become general guidelines for a new way of work. The ideas contained in it are absolutely valid beyond the field of software. But like many things that have been excessively glorified, the hype typically distracts attention away from the original idea, in pursuit of commercialising it in the most rigorous manner…

Keywords: Innovation; Future of Work; Future; Futurism; Trends; Transformation; Corporate Innovation; Digital Transformation; Trust Economy; Sharing Economy; Deep Technology; Future Economy; Startups; Digital Trust; Digital Economy; Digitisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G34 L2 L26 M1 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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