What is Business Agility transformation?

Business Agility transformations and Agile transformations refer to two distinct approaches to organizational change and growth. While both aim to improve an organization’s ability to adapt and respond to market changes and customer needs, they differ in their scope and implementation.

What are the main differences between Business Agility and Agile? First, let’s look at how an Agile Transformation supports an organization.

Agile transformations focus on improving how work is done, particularly in software development and IT. The Agile methodology, which originated in the software development industry, centers around the Agile Manifesto and its principles of delivering value, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Agile transformations aim to enhance an organization’s ability to rapidly respond to changing requirements and improve the quality of the end product.

To determine which approach is best for your organization, conducting a Business Agility Assessment can provide valuable insights. This assessment evaluates your current state and readiness for transformation, guiding you toward the most effective strategy for achieving your goals.

Business Agility transformations, on the other hand, focus on the entire organisation, from strategy to execution. It involves aligning all functions, processes, and systems to support an Agile business model, which is characterised by speed, flexibility, and responsiveness to change. Business Agility transformations often involve significant changes to an organisation’s culture, leadership, structure, and technology, as well as the development of new skills and capabilities.

Simply put, Business Agility transformations are a holistic approach to transforming the entire organisation, while Agile transformations focus on improving specific work processes using the Agile methodology.

At EPiC, we use the Enterprise Business Agility (EBA) Model to drive all of our transformations, providing clear and simple guidance to our customers about how to lead their own Business Agility Transformation.

The EBA model is built around 5 areas that cover all of the elements of the organisational change necessary to create a truly agile organisation.

While most transformation agencies focus on agile, we focus on whole of business transformation.

We accelerate your journey towards true business agility by enabling every individual, team, function, department and business unit to be part of the revolution. We work with and touch on all parts of your organisation because Business Agility isn’t about agile… it’s about survival.

To hear a more in-depth discussion about Business Agility, EPiC’s co-founder, Brad Bennett chats with Natash Redman on the Casa de Cambio podcast.

Brad describes Business Agility as fundamentally an organisation’s ability to pivot. Business Agility Transformation is enabling an organisation to have the core capabilities to do that. Just one of those capabilities is Agile.

“Agile doesn’t solve all the business problems. It’s a really beautiful methodology at doing stuff, delivering stuff iteratively and learning from market. But there are other problems it just doesn’t solve and Business Agility takes on those larger problems.”

You can listen to the full podcast below on how Business Agility Transformation is helping to solve larger problems for organisations:

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