At the information age, Business agility, the ability of a business to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently in response to changes in the business environment, can only be achieved in organization that can adapt their technical solutions or create new ones fast enough.
Technical Agility is therefore a mandatory step toward Business Agility. Technical Agility suggests the usage of Agile methodologies in projects, the leverage of Open standards and ready-made technical components to rapidly assemble solutions. In general, Business Agility can be achieved in enterprises that have very dynamic decision making structures (vs. hierarchical ones) and that promote teams with cross-functional, unspecialized smart resources. In that sense, Business Agility is very much related to the new Innovation trends and supposes that an occasional failure is an acceptable part of the game.
How agile is your organization?
