After posting on corporations looking to increase their agility on Tuesday, we found two new reports on business agility in our mailbox on Wednesday.
Gallup pointed us to their report The Real Future of Work: The Agility Issue. Here's their pitch on the need for increased business agility:
The old axiom "adapt or die" has never been more relevant than it is today. Consider just three rapid changes organizations are confronting:
- radically shifting customer demands
- lightning-fast advances in technology
- new demands from the emerging millennial (and even younger) workforce
Organizations that don't have the capacity to adapt quickly to trends such as these will be passed by their competitors - or even put out of business.
In case you think increasing agility is easy, Catalant's report The Obstacles to Agility disagrees.
According to this report everyone agrees agility is important. But most feel their organizations aren't good at it. Key quote:
According to pre-event survey data, respondents gave the selected drivers of business agility ... an average importance rating of 9/10. Yet, across the board, companies are struggling to achieve agility within their organizations. As noted by the survey results ... In fact, 61% of respondents gave their organizations an average agility performance rating of 6/10 or below.
The Catalant report chart below shows how other agility factors were rated.
This busy week of agility reports shows how big a topic this topic has become.
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