By Homa Bahrami
Today, we are living in a dynamic and inter-connected global. a mess of "revision triggers" make it essential to count on, organize for, and continually adapt to new realities. the main to dynamic version we argue, is to turn into "super-flexible". Super-flexibility is outlined because the skill to have interaction in a continual balancing act: at the one hand, we have to face up to turbulence and create strong anchors, nevertheless, we need to remodel and adapt to new realities. Our management "toolkit" may also help us diagnose at the fly, and take swift activities as new advancements spread. This booklet is set how enterprise leaders can harness uncertainty and make their groups and organizations "super-flexible". in response to 25 years of box examine, advisory paintings, event in Silicon Valley' s cutting edge environment, the authors current a cross-functional, "general administration" toolkit for strategizing, organizing, best, and eventually re-inventing wisdom organisations for a dynamic world.
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He discusses the problem of selecting a meal from a menu several days in advance, when preferences are not fully known. However, progress in this area remains theoretical, except in high performance computing where: “Malleability is the ability to dynamically change the data size and number of computational entities in an application. 45 It will be interesting to see Fuss 1977, Albrecht & Hart 1983. 42 Greiner 1973, p. 399. 43 Spender 1996, p. 53. 44 Desell et al. 2007 p 323. 45 28 Conceptual Foundations of Super-Flexibility: A Multi-Disciplinary Synthesis how this plays out when IT no longer needs a “physical” presence.
2003 p. 1960. 78 Brock & Carpenter 2009 p. 25. 12 Versatility The term “versatility” is defined as turning readily from one subject or occupation to another or having the capacity to deal with many subjects, at times simultaneously. 80 He argued that versatility is achieved by installing the capability to respond to a wide range of scenarios ahead of time, or by rapidly modifying an approach, once a change has occurred (Bonder 1976). Tangentially, anthropologists accredit a versatile diet as a driving force for the success of our earliest Homo ancestors.
We will return to this recurring ecological theme whereby the cross-utilization of several concepts is used to pinpoint the meaning of flexibility. 2 Agility The term “agility” describes the extent to which an individual, a team or a firm, can move nimbly with dexterity. In nature, we often think of gazelles or cheetahs as being agile. In business settings, it refers to moving out of the way of an impending disaster, for example by rapidly adopting “poison pill” measures to thwart an acquisition, or entering a new market by buying a company before others.
