The Competitive Business Agility Framework - Summary

Scott Potter • 1 March 2016

What is Business Agility? And how do we achieve it?

 

This article is intended for reference only, as a memory jogger or to be linked to as the original source . The full framework (not publicly available although a preview can be found here), is intended for use only by experienced practitioners within the field of agile transformation and business improvement that have had VFS training and mentoring.


The Four Tenets: 

The 12 Company Attributes:

The Business Zone and the Cultural & Sociological Zone:

The Identity & Alignment Zone and Nurture & Growth Zone:

 

This is for reference only and is the intellectual property of Value Flow Solutions ltd. Ideas can be shared and used freely but with reference to either Value Flow Solutions or Scott Potter.


Due to the interrelated nature of all these key attributes, the VFS Toolkit has models, smaller frameworks, resources and training aligned to Tenets, Zones and individual attributes.

 

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