by Joe M. Powell
The marketplace is constantly churning, with new ideas bubbling forth, old ones dissipating, some rules evolving, some rules imploding. Ours is a game of continuous adjustment. Conventional wisdom tells us that smaller firms are more nimble and larger companies have great difficulty trying to spin in a new direction when the marketplace demands it. We found no such phenomenon. Operational agility, it seems, is as much an attitude as it is an organizational construct. We uncovered very large, agile firms and plenty of small ones held captive by their own hide-bound traditions.
We are particularly interested in comments regarding the relationship between operational agility and competitiveness.
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