Recently, I have been thinking deeply about what it would take to "dampen" some of the harsh pendulum swings we are experiencing in the industry. Does inertia rule everything? Are we powerless against inertia?
It is ironic because if there was ever a time to use the word agility, it would be now. Yet the idea of organizational agility has seemingly been corrupted by the failure to transfer any of the ideas around team-level agility to organizations as a whole. We expect team-level agility to thrive within 1950s-esque operating systems. It’s like hundreds of speed boats tethered to the Titanic. This is not exclusive to "lagging" non-digital product companies. It’s happening everywhere.