Agility combines lean with high throughput rather than cost cutting. Agility's success relies on acute attention to customer needs. To remain vital, an organization must know these needs, so it can satisfy them. Economic success in the future will come from the agile application of knowledge to create new markets, new products and new wealth. Government will achieve success in the same way.
Agility responds to rapidly adding or creating value.
It does this by dramatically increasing participation and cooperation across a very broad spectrum of interests. Boeing did this with the 777. This included customers, maintenance people , even foreign governments. They created a new design process for a new airplane. Thriving in the mass customization paradigm requires an intimate appreciation of the customer's real needs in the future, as well as the present.