Executive Agility

So is there is a simple explanation of organizational agility then?

Most people reach for pithy one-liners to answer this question such as:

"Organizational agility is an organization's ability to harness change for competitive advantage." -  Ken Schwaber

Organizational agility is about using the reality that change is constant for competitive 

advantage -- we can't "manage" change; we must adapt to it.

The problem with pithy one-liners is they are a little too open for interpretation and frankly abuse.

Pia starts the episode by recalling her journey in agile and explains what fuelled the drive to write her first book: Agile People. John and Pia then embark on a deep, multifaceted, and simultaneously humorous discussion about agility.  

Value is context sensitive. Almost universally, value is difficult to measure. Value can be a mixture from one/some/all of the following perspectives:

When forecasting potential value, value is not crystal clear; it’s about the relative value of one item over another.