“By now, agility in the company is no longer viewed as just hype or a trend; rather, it is considered an essential basis for future growth. This is particularly true during the COVID-19 crisis”.
This is the first key statement included in the 2020 Future Organisation Report (Peters et al., 2020, p. 36)
Agility is now being brought beyond the borders of IT, to an organisational level. This is what we call an agile transformation. An important barrier to such a transformation is the organisation’s current culture. In particular if it is « traditional ».
In a few weeks time we, as in Alicia Roschnik and Stéphanie Missonier, will be presenting a first paper (in a long series) concerning the building of crossable bridge, from a traditional to an agile culture. The paper will be presented at the Association Information and Management (AIM) conference. The bridge is being build in the design science research paradigm and follows the design theory for visual inquiry tools (Avdiji et al., 2020).