Organizational Agility Flashcards

What is organizational agility?

Answer: The ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to market changes while maintaining stability

Organizational agility is the capacity to sense and respond to environmental changes quickly while maintaining internal stability.

What is a key barrier to organizational agility?

Answer: Siloed departments and hierarchical decision-making

Organizational silos and top-down decision structures slow response to change and impede agility.

How does a CAL-1 leader contribute to scaling agility beyond their team?

Answer: By modeling Agile behaviors and advocating for structural changes in the organization

CAL-1 leaders scale agility by modeling behaviors and influencing organizational structures to enable greater adaptability.

What does 'value stream' mean in an Agile organizational context?

Answer: The sequence of activities required to deliver value to a customer

A value stream maps the end-to-end activities needed to deliver a product or service from concept to customer.

Which leadership behavior most directly reduces organizational bureaucracy?

Answer: Empowering teams to make decisions at the lowest appropriate level

Pushing decision-making to the lowest appropriate level reduces bureaucratic delay and increases organizational agility.

What is 'systems thinking' in Agile leadership?

Answer: Understanding how parts of an organization interact and influence each other

Systems thinking helps leaders understand the interdependencies within organizations and the unintended consequences of changes.