White Paper: Insights from the Agile Business Awards 2023

Insights from the Agile Business Awards 2023

Insights from Peter Coesmans, Chief Agility Officer at Agile Business Consortium

Introduction

This insights report is based on the learnings gathered from the Agile Business Awards 2023, organised by the Agile Business Consortium, the independent professional body for business agility.

As part of the Awards process, organisations are reviewed and receive feedback on their business agility by a group of independent reviewers. The Framework for Business Agility (FBA) serves as the basis for the review. The FBA provides an independent, agnostic, inclusive way to assess the business agility of an organisation, a department, an enterprise, or a project or programme. It is independent of methodology, technology, agile framework, or sector in which it is used.

This report by no means can describe the current status of business agility. It is only based on the information we have received from organisations that have been reviewed. Most organisations entered the Awards, because they felt they had a (positive) story to tell about their agility journey, wanted to be open and transparent about it and welcomed feedback from peers. If nothing else, this report therefore describes what ‘good practice’ looks like, when it comes to business agility. Rather than a quantitative report in which large numbers of organisations state their views, this report is high in its qualitative insights, gathered through a thorough process in which organisations record their learnings in a formatted way, with independent expert reviewers then qualifying and commenting on them. Nevertheless, we will also provide you with some numbers and their interpretation.

We had applications from many parts of the world, from entire organisations both large and small, from departments, functions, or project teams within organisations. We had organisations that have been becoming more agile for over 5 years, and some organisations that had embarked on their journey just over a year before. There is learning from every kind of organisation throughout its journey. In this report, we strive to provide you with as much information as we can, without disclosing any information about the individual applications and applicants, whether they were successful in the awards process or not.

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Authors

Peter Coesmans

Chief Agility Officer, Agile Business Consortium

Peter has been involved in agile working and its predecessors since 1997. He has helped to forward professionals in agility (co-authoring Agile Portfolio Management), project/programme/portfolio management (co-authoring IPMA’s ICB4 standard), and facilitation (setting up the international CPF assessment for IAF international). Peter often gets the opportunity to speak at professional conferences worldwide, on a myriad of topics. He is always looking for sustainable improvements and believes true change is brought forward in small steps, through learning and experimenting, and by collaborating with people with a common goal.

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Agile Business Consortium

The Agile Business Consortium is the professional body for business agility. We’re all about community – whether you’re a multinational working through a large-scale transformation, a new start-up, or a contractor, we can support you to achieve more, to grow more, and to build your business agility. As a global not-for-profit organisation that’s been around for over 25 years, our knowledge and experience around agile competencies and behaviours can offer you the guidance you need to reach your agility goals. Together with our partners, we create and share agile research, case studies, resources and tools that help you compete in today’s uncertain world. A registered not-for-profit, we’re the world’s longest-standing agile-orientated organisation. We’re the brains behind AgilePM®, AgileBA®, AgilePgM®, AgilePfM™ and AgileDS™. Based in the UK, we have members in over 30 countries around the world.