Agility Properly Understood and Better Implemented: The Digital Revolution: From Methodologies to People

Companies need to take a more dynamic approach to decision-making and ensure that the decisions they take are right more often that they are wrong. This is only possible if we learn better and faster. We have gone from being knowledge workers to being learning workers. The pursuit of consensus is no longer just an organizational priority; now accord arises from the creation of "organisms" or communities where knowledge and its real application are the drivers of a stable form of agility that fosters constant learning, which appears to have shifted the focus from individuals to teams. As Professor Juan Antonio Pérez López has noted, mechanistic structures with incomplete motivations do not succeed in getting the most out of people. The digital revolution once again provides an opportunity for fully human organizations to bring individual freedom and collective coordination into accord in pursuit of broad results that come from doing what needs to be done with excellence.