Commentary
Businesses large and small are working to be more flexible, agile and responsive to changing marketplace needs. Words like pivot, nimble, elastic or resilient often show up in value statements and strategic plans. Learning how large companies approach these challenges can help educate animal health pros who want to streamline or update their business approaches.
In this article, McKinsey reports on a discussion with heads of agile centers of excellence representing companies from a wide range of sectors and at various stages of their agile transformations. Company types included telecommunications, banking and insurance.
. . . it’s crucial to choose a CoE leader who can switch seamlessly between a focus on the small details and on the big picture.
Source: McKinsey and Company, September 23, 2022. Link. There was a broad consensus that the way to balance long-term thinking with the shorter-term demands of the transformation was to constantly re-center the company—and its individual divisions—on its fundamental objectives.