Say "Yes" to Agility

Bob Ottenhoff has a great blog post on the concept of being agile as an organization and how it relates to strategic planning. Bob highlights the importance of adaptability to meet ever-changing challenges and opportunities. By time we finish up our strategic planning, make it all nice and pretty, and have it reviewed and approved by our Board, it is probably out of date. The process of planning and the plan itself might lead us from the readiness we need to jump on a opportunity when it pops in unexpectedly through our door.

My struggle with struggle with being boxed in by plans and planning has led me to explore alternatives, such as strategic intuition (the topic of my last few blog posts). Not planning is not an option, but there must be room for intuition, for agility, and for being ready like a crouching tiger (or hidden dragon) to pounce on the opportunity.

Wikipedia has a nice little article about business agility.