Christopher
Worley
Professor of Strategy and Strategy Director, CLEO
NEOMA Business School

Misconceptions of Agility and Talent Ecosystems

“Agility”—the buzzword is everywhere, but it is widely misunderstood. In this HCI Keynote video, Christopher Worley, academic and co-author of The Agility Factor discusses definition, strategy, and design surrounding organizational agility in talent ecosystems.

Key Insights:

  • Understand agility as a capability to select and sustain timely changes without institutionalizing them.
  • Examine the three types of performance patterns among the largest firms in 25 industries—who is and isn’t agile might surprise you.
  • Hear examples of how strategizing, perceiving, testing, and implementing support the “routines of agility” pyramid, a model statistically linked with above-average performance.
  • Discover two distinct, but viable, approaches to talent, and learn how they are employed competitively by Netflix and Disney.