Systemic Innovation

1Enterprise Through the Lens of Agility, Creativity and Monitoring Method Combinations

1.1. Introduction

The term agility is now very often used to describe innovative management methods or companies. In this sense, at the company level, agility is considered as an ability to adopt a “start-up” spirit to develop new products that will be successful very quickly. In a more cross-functional way, relating just as much to the individual, innovation or organization, agility evokes both an intellectual and a mechanical ability that qualifies an ease of adaptation to an increasingly turbulent and unpredictable environment (Sonntag 2019). It is not reducible to the application of a method that cannot, by itself, guarantee the effectiveness of the company or its teams to respond quickly and more effectively to the needs of its customers.

Agility is a complex concept which, if it is to be defined, must take into account its two aspects. It is the initiative that an organization can demonstrate in order to seize new opportunities and effectively guard against threats through its ability to detect and react quickly to environmental changes (Lim et al. 2015). However, this definition is not sufficient, as it does not provide information on what an initiative is and how it is implemented. Agility is also a set of values and beliefs to which its proponents are explicitly attached (Oswald 2018). It is therefore necessary to understand both of these aspects. Therefore, this chapter presents ...