With agile being used successfully from everything from Thomas Edison's Menlo Park to the Apollo Space Program to Lockheed's SR-71 Blackbird Program and with companies like Google and 66% of the world's projects using Agile Methods; Agile's is an unqualified success. Can you afford not to bring agility to your organization? (4 pages)
We are now in the Learning and Agile Strategy phase where businesses must change their structure fluidly in response to ever changing customer needs and market pressures. Yet survey after survey show that executive managers in most companies feel their organization is not agile enough to take advantage of market swings. So how can an organization become agile to take advantage of market opportunities without the ensuing chaos or losing accountability? (5 pages)
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