Executive Summary
Organizations in 2025 face unprecedented disruption. Geopolitical tensions, AI-driven change, and sustainability imperatives are reshaping the business landscape. Traditional change management frameworks are no longer sufficient without agility.
Agility must be understood not as a methodology but as a core organizational competence: the ability to adapt continuously and create sustainable value in complex, uncertain environments. This report, Insights Report 2025: Shaping the Future of Change, synthesizes insights from the Agile Business Awards 2025 and broader research through the lens of the Framework for Business Agility. It highlights three critical shifts for change leaders:
- From frameworks to competencies,
- From outputs to outcomes and impacts,
- From organization-centric change to ecosystem-level adaptation.
The central challenge is managing a number of paradoxes: the need to balance autonomy with accountability, speed with stability, and short-term gains with long-term organisational goals and societal and ecological responsibilities.
The imperative is clear: to ensure agility is embedded as a strategic capability, enabling the delivery of sustainable value in an age of disruption.
From the report emerged 12 key insights about how business agility is being practised in organisations today.
Use the link below to download and read the Insights Report 2025: Shaping the Future of Change.
Author
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.
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