The Government Leader’s Field Guide to Organizational Agility

AppendixORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY FRAMEWORK

As we began developing the organizational agility framework, we tracked down and reviewed numerous research studies that examined some aspect of organizational agility. While reading through all of this research, we grouped the concepts (i.e., the variables or levers) examined in each study by similarity. Those three major groupings follow:

1. The organization’s environment, which includes all of the changing factors that the organization must deal with, both internal and external.
2. Actions that the organization can take to better manage the swirl of change in its environment, which we further divided into agility routines (i.e., sensing, interpreting, and responding routines) and levers (i.e., ways the ...