Making Sense of the HR agility landscape – Sonja Blignaut
Channel: Agile People
Date: 2018-10-30

With the growing need for strategic agility and therefore agile people and support functions, understanding the complex dynamics involved in enabling this shift is a key priority. Metaphorically, we need to shift from a paradigm that creates organizations that are like mechanistic zoos, to ones that are more like resilient jungles, or as Dave Snowden puts it, return Agile to the wild. One thing we do know is that one size doesn’t fit all, there is no recipe for agility that is context independent. We conducted a Sensemaker-based narrative inquiry to understand the current People Agility landscape, to better understand the needs and related responses in different contexts. In this talk, we will share some of the patterns and insights from this study, as well as the implications for those seeking to enable agility beyond IT. Deeper insights will be shared in the Complexity Workshop.