agile organization

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Dictionary meaning

an organisation structured and managed to sense and respond rapidly to environmental changes, customer needs, and competitive pressures through iterative learning cycles, decentralised decision-making, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement rather than through hierarchical command and annual planning cycles; the agile organisation model extends the principles of agile software development — iterative sprints, cross-functional teams, customer collaboration, and responding to change over following a plan — to entire organisations; McKinsey research identifies agile organisations as significantly outperforming their industry peers on measures of speed, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and financial performance