The 3 As of organizational agility

A disruption-ready organization isn't one that predicts the future correctly. It's one that can anticipate change, adapt strategy quickly and act before competitors do—a three-factor formula for agility which many high-performance organizations embrace:

Anticipate: The ability to sense and forecast change by scanning for signals, using scenario planning, or making workforce and business data visible to leaders. As a result, the workforce comes to view change as not only expected and manageable, but as a chance to disrupt both within the organization as well as the industry.
Adapt: The proficiency to rapidly reset enterprise strategy, reallocate resources, update priorities and ensure enterprise alignment. Often, this means that the organization works hard to break down rigid silos and hierarchies to enable rapid knowledge sharing, continuous learning and teamwork, while purposefully instilling an inclusive, collaborative spirit in the workforce.
Act: The competence to implement and sustain new ways of working by continually building capabilities, reinforcing desired behaviors and scaling effective practices. This may necessitate restructuring to minimize hierarchy and bureaucracy, as well as to empower individuals and diverse, self-directed teams—no matter their proximity—to make rapid decisions and execute quickly.

Our research shows that the most agile organizations report significantly higher productivity (3-6X more than the least agile organizations). They also report higher engagement and the lowest level of change fatigue (12%). Additionally, they often maximize technology more than others, operationalizing AI at a rate 2-5X of other companies we studied.

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