Forbes Insights and the Scrum Alliance have got together to publish a recent report on Organisational Agility, drawn from interviews with over 1,000 C-suite executives from around the globe.
A key theme which runs through the whole report is how important Culture is to Organisational Agility. (Something which I emphasised in "The Way of DAU"). Additionally, there are some compelling findings about the benefits of organisational agility. Over 50% of respondents identified benefits in the areas of:
- Time to Market
- Speed of Innovation
- Employee Morale
- Ability to Attract Talent
- Competitiveness
- Financial Results
- Ability to Manage Across Geographies
To re-inforce these findings, the report focuses on the performance of leading Agile Organisations and Laggard Organisations. Whilst they represent similar proportions of the overall survey population (16% and 19% respectively), twice as many Leader Organisations enjoy annual growth of over 20% as Laggards do.
In all probability, the CxO community that the authors consulted, probably included a pool of organisation most interested in Agility, as an earlier report by McKinsey suggested that only 4% of organisations have completed an organisation wide Agile transformation.
In all probability, the CxO community that the authors consulted, probably included a pool of organisation most interested in Agility, as an earlier report by McKinsey suggested that only 4% of organisations have completed an organisation wide Agile transformation.
The report looked at a number of things, including whether organisational agility was End-to-End or siloed in functions. Based on the opinions of the respondents, it appears that Operations and Technical Functions tend to be the most Agile (79% and 75% respectively), followed by the usual suspects in Sales and Marketing. Interestingly enough, Finance achieved a credible 64% vote of confidence, but HR was amongst the laggards with only 56% of respondents considering it an agile function. Considering that HR is often thought of as the "Guardian of Culture" this is a worrying gulf and should be a wake up call to HR to re-vitalise its mission.
One area that I would have liked more analysis on, was whether Leading Agile organisations already had positive innovative and collaborative cultures before they embraced Agile or had to focus on it as part of Agile Adoption.
Anyway, the take away is that all CxOs, irrespective of function, need to work on fostering the right culture.
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