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How to Adapt:Adaptive Enterprise

Over the past several decades, IBM has researched how organizations in diverse industries sensed and responded to change. Stephan H. Haeckel, the director of strategic studies at IBM’s Advanced Business Institute, outlined some of the key findings of this work in his book Adaptive Enterprise: Creating and Leading Sense-and-Respond Organizations, published in 1999 by the Harvard Business School Press.

Haeckel believes that the only kind of strategy that makes sense in the face of unpredictable change is a strategy ...

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