The five trademarks of agile organizations

The five trademarks of agile organizations

How agile organizations get organized to adapt quickly to a shifting environment.

Author(s): Wouter Aghina, Karin Ahlback, Aaron De Smet, Gerald Lackey, Michael Lurie, Monica Murarka, Christopher Handscomb

Publisher: McKinsey

Date of publication: 2018

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Summary

On what strengths do agile companies rely? McKinsey consultants have identified five of them, which consist of how these organizations conceive their strategies, structure themselves, develop their internal procedures, boost their teams and build their technical infrastructure. In these five domains, agile companies have moved away from the mechanical model that prevailed during the industrial era, proven too stiff. Instead, they have opted for principles inspired from the realm of nature, such as reactivity and evolution. They thus adapt more rapidly to the mutations in their environment. A particularly welcomed approach in our current, unstable, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world.  An interesting conceptual vision, supported by numerous concrete examples.