Summery: To achieve Business Agility, companies should adapt structures while ensuring rapid decision-making and knowledge scaling. Emphasising time-to-market optimisation and economic thinking, Business Agility focuses on achieving significant time savings. Integrating Socioeconomic Kanban -systems and prioritising time-related factors like response time and delivery time help enhance efficiency and adaptability. Business Agility fosters a focus on delivering to customers within the required timeframe (T2M).
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.
Business Agility involves embracing each enterprise’s cultural value system, which promotes stability. The cultural value system is defined by normative structures, such as hierarchical structures.
This stability is a prerequisite for rapidly incorporating dynamic and variable changes. The essential point, however, is that hierarchical structures must be permeable to ensure the success of scaling knowledge work. It allows for faster decision-making and prioritisation.
Business Agility’s purpose is to elevate the focus on economic thinking at any organisational level. Time savings aim, for example, to reduce both internal and external reaction times in product development processes, migrations, and R&D engineering.
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
Furthermore, Business Agility is a promising approach that focuses on time. Hence, the perception of optimising the Time2Market to shorten customers waiting time should change to a more structural perspective. Thus, a new outlook on how time can be managed is established. What we call target dates enhance your innovation endeavours, resulting in significant time savings.
We have deductive reasoning Kanban to optimise innovation and time efficiency while ensuring Business Agility. Socioeconomic Kanban Systems aim to incorporate various time dates as a fundamental structure. It is crucial to identify a valuable system with a focus on time-related structures such as responsive time, delivery time, idle time, waiting time, etc. A permeable hierarchical structure and the scaling of knowledge work maximise efficiency, potentially saving 3% of time per department during a 150-day development cycle with an 85% probability. Those systems aim to consider different time dates as a major structure.
Business Agility is about time measures. This concentration on time measures is a crucial structural aspect of leveraging the good regulator mechanism. A good regulator mechanism is what George E. P. Box, a British statistician, once said: “Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”
The good regulator mechanism is one of those useful models and includes, for instance:
- Delivers predictability in percentage of probability
- Adjust strategy and decision-making processes
- Daily real-time transparency with digitalization media
- Monte Carlo simulation is powerful to analyse and optimise
What we see is that over the past couple of decades, a cult has grown up around teams, so teams are considered almost sacrosanct. The belief that working in teams makes us more creative and productive is so widespread that when faced with a challenging new task, leaders are quick to assume that teams are the best way to get the job done. But this myth needs to be challenged in times of unpredictability and the unknown. The team concept is undeniably important. But to solve the expert shortage, the focus should lie on interdependency structures. One element of these structures is reciprocity: if person x does a service for person y, person y will then feel grateful and seek to reciprocate in some manner. That is what we refer to as sociology’s social structures. Others, such as permeable authority, spontaneous sociability, and enterprise self-concepts, are essential values for Business Agility.
In summary, by managing uncertainty, accelerating prototyping, implementing permeable structures, relying more on internal input, fostering interdependency, prioritising effectiveness, embracing reciprocity, and promoting ongoing innovation, we can navigate the complexities of the New Normal and thrive in unpredictable markets.
