The Agility Factor: Building Adaptable Organizations for Superior Performance

Preface

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

This book is about organization agility and its performance consequences. Despite the volume of writing on the subject, the business and academic press rarely connect these two issues in any meaningful and concrete way. There is a lot of discussion about agile software development in the technology community; agile culture and leadership, among management gurus and in the blogosphere; agile manufacturing practices, among operations experts; agile supply chains, among logistics professionals; and agile organizations, among executives ...