Traditional management can´t cope
Experts saw this coming already years ago – as for example John Kotter of Harvard Business school in 2012, as did Henry Mintzberg and Claudio Feser of McKinsey.
Coping with acceleration is now a matter of winning in competition
in competition with other businesses the business with higher agility will win over its competitors
The answer is a second management system
From John Kotter´s article “Accelerate!” in HBR, Nov. 2012:
- The existing structures and processes that together form an organization’s daily operating system need an additional element to address the challenges produced by mounting complexity and rapid change.
- The solution is a second operating system, that uses an agile, network like structure and a very different set of processes.”
- The new operating system identifies key hazards early enough,
- Formulates strategic initiatives nimbly,
- Implements initiatives fast enough,
- And reacts with agility, speed and creativity.
This new, second operating system is agile business management
- This is not an “either or” idea,
- It’s “both”, two systems that operate in concert.