Business Agility, a trend or the key to your future?
Hold on to your hats. If you think the rate of change has been intense in the last 20 years, you haven’t seen anything yet! There are huge megatrends now afoot that will drag distracted decision-makers overboard, no matter how luxurious your corporate yacht. There are also dark storm clouds gathering for what could be the most perfect storm ever! If you’re not prepared, if you choose not to listen, and/or if you’re not agile enough to handle the rising seas of change, you and your business will go under.
Powerful trends are now on display with great intensity.
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big data now you have the power to capture and measure whatever you want.
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learn online in the form of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), it allows access to cutting-edge education to anyone, 24/7, ANYWHERE!
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production abundanceservices and even cheap money.
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Exciting Demographics where smart and healthy seniors choose not to retire
These are just a few, but each one is a forceful wave powerful enough to crush those who resist, ignore or overlook them. If you don’t learn to ride these waves of change, you and your team may hit the rocks of complacency.
However, this is only half the story. For every exciting change mentioned above and dozens more, there is a dark side. The storm clouds are gathering. As with every previous trend, each and every storm below, plus others not mentioned, could wreak havoc in its own right.
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economic turmoil, due to easy money, has broken the price mechanism of the world. How much does something really cost when it is financed for free?
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Environmental issues such as pollution and climate change can no longer be avoided.
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government intrusion in the form of higher taxes, lengthy and complicated laws are stifling business development. Entrepreneurs doubt.
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Geopolitics are increasingly uncertain, it is always easier for a leader to blame some external force than to take a closer look at his own part in the chaos.
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saturation information makes effective decision making difficult; greater stress.
All these accidents waiting to happen help increase our distrust in as usual leadership. With new scandals coming to light every day, who can you trust? How can you make responsible decisions? How can you act on them decisively?
To survive, let alone thrive, in these increasingly uncertain times, you need to get agile NOW! Change management using retrospective tools is no longer practical. By mastering your agility ability, you can help ensure your future success by:
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Thinking in the future towards the horizon, not trusting how good it used to be
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Find Agile Leaders with passion for people, customers and their products
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growing value tuning and marketing your products efficiently
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Costs reduction locating and outsourcing non-core inefficiency
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Communicating your message by inspiring and attractive others in action
All of these disciplines will help increase your responsiveness. Practicing these tools on a daily basis will transform business agility from a catchy buzzword to a lifestyle that ensures the success of you and your corporate staff.