Agility Advantage: A Survival Guide for Complex Enterprises and Endeavors.

摘要

This is a continuation in the series of publications produced by the Center for Advanced Concepts and Technology (ACT), which was created as a skunk works with funding provided by the CCRP under the auspices of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (NII). This program has demonstrated the importance of having a research program focused on the national security implications of the Information Age. It develops the theoretical foundations to provide DoD with information superiority and highlights the importance of active outreach and dissemination initiatives designed to acquaint senior military personnel and civilians with these emerging issues. The CCRP Publication Series is a key element of this effort. We find ourselves in a new, as yet unnamed age, in which we are increasingly interconnected, interdependent, and pressed for time. Our ability to predict, and hence to plan, has been greatly diminished as a consequence of the complexity and dynamics of our environments and the nature of the responses necessary to survive and prosper. Survival in this new age requires, above all else, agility. This book provides a detailed definition of agility and explains why this is so. It explores the reasons why agility is an essential ingredient of the solution to many of the most challenging problems of our time. It probes the nature of agility and seeks to identify its enablers and the factors and conditions that present impediments to its realization.