Scaling Agility: The Fuel that Drives the Organisation’s Digital Transformation

In today’s rapidly-changing corporate world, it’s imperative for businesses and organisations to respond and adapt more quickly than ever before. Digital transformation provides opportunities by optimising resource usage, innovating capabilities and creating lasting relationships with customers. Throughout the organisations’ journey in digital transformation, agility is one of the most important aspects to be looked at. In this interview, we had the pleasure of a conversation with Vlerick Business School’s Professor Stijn Viaene, who talked to us about the importance of agile transformation and how it drives and delivers digital transformation.

Q Scaling agility is a huge topic right now, especially to organisations during their digital transformation journey. Could you tell us exactly what this is about? Does it matter to all organisations?

The importance of aligning, coordinating and integrating work is not new. It goes back to the very essence of making organisations work. What has changed though, is the backdrop against which we are organising: turbulence, catalysed by digitalisation.

A Agility is what is required from organisations that want to thrive in turbulent environments, like the digital economy. It implies speed, flexibility, and most