Achieving Business Agility: Strategies for Becoming Pivot Ready in a Digital World

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J. OrvosAchieving Business Agilityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3855-4_1

1. Sound the Alarm

John Orvos¹  

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Belle Mead, New Jersey, USA

 

Keywords

Society’s ProblemsAgile CompetitorsMating SpeedDigital DisruptorsCustomer-facing Departments

A sound the alarm strategy will get an executive’s attention by alerting him or her to an imminent company problem and creates a sense of urgency to address it. This strategy is based on getting your executive’s attention by pointing out the ramifications of an emerging business problem: new competitors are winning over your customers and are poised to take the lead. Today, companies are competing on a whole new playing field. Customer demands are changing too fast for most companies to keep up. As ...