Agility in a Discordant World

Join the SMS Strategy Process Interest Group for "Agility in a Discordant World" featuring panelists Julian Birkinshaw, London Business School, and Sarah Elk, Bain & Company and author of “Doing Agile Right.” 

Business environments are fraught with uncertainty and change. Therefore, building capabilities to react, adapt and shape the environment, i.e., business agility, becomes critical for organizations. Fostering business agility implies transforming existing strategies, processes, cultures, and structures. For example, agile ways of working have garnered substantial attention among strategic management researchers and practitioners, since they require reconfiguring how individuals within teams work and how the organization is structured. This webinar will discuss the drivers, pitfalls, and critical success factors of business agility and agile transformation processes. Our speakers, Julian Birkinshaw (London Business School) and Sarah Elk (global leader at Bain & Company and co-author of ‘Doing Agile Right’) will share their insights on this topic, followed by a discussion with the audience.

This session was hosted and organized by the Strategy Process Interest Group's Patricia Klarner, Vienna University of Economics & Business, and Murat Tarakci, Rotterdam School of Management.

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