As technology continues to advance, businesses today need to be flexible enough to adapt. Business leaders themselves need to be confident that their businesses are able to adapt, make the most of these exciting new opportunities, and overcome any challenges that come their way.

Business agility is therefore essential: it is the ability to adapt to change and evolve with the times, inside and outside the company, in order to maintain a competitive advantage while remaining profitable and operationally effective.

Why is business agility vital and what are the obstacles to overcome?

Agile organizations are better able to deal with unexpected developments as they happen, in order to make the most of any new situation. For example, fluctuating market conditions, increasing customer demands, rapid staff turnover, evolving governance policies, the launch of new products... They can navigate unfamiliar territory more easily and stay productive.

The case for business agility is strong and logical, but it can be difficult to achieve it in a modern business environment for a variety of reasons:

• A risk-averse or fearful corporate culture naturally stifles the innovative thinking that is necessary for agility.
• Vagueness of goals, roles, and expectations of individuals and of the organization prevent commitments and goals from being made.
• Manual processes that are too complex slow down decision-making and compromise the energy needed to create change.
• Siloed, isolated departments and disparate sites limit the potential for agility and innovation.
• Legacy and disjointed computer systems are no longer appropriate and do not allow information to be accessed or shared quickly or easily.

Adopt a simple and clear approach

Business agility is based on a a certain degree of freedom and flexibility, in order to be flexible enough to adapt quickly, absorb ideas and be comfortable with new ways of working.

To do this, management and processes should be as simple and clear as possible, so that everyone is on the same page, understands and trusts their role, goals, and expectations.

“Low-code” platforms can contribute to breaking down these barriers and encouraging business agility, by offering their users a a convenient and easy way to design, build, and test professional applications without needing to be a computer expert.

They increase the agility of your organization by making you:

• More effective : by identifying and removing bottlenecks in your existing processes, while automating heavy or repetitive manual tasks in order to free up resources and speed up operations.
• More responsive : using a convenient “drag-and-drop” interface that allows you to change and update processes and then quickly implement them.
• Fully compliant : by integrating rules into your business processes and allowing you to easily make any changes needed to respond to regulatory updates as they happen.
• Unification and collaboration : through a common and centralized platform where all your teams and employees can share information, assign tasks and consult business data together, in real time.

Establishing a single, consistent, simple, and reliable platform can transform the way your business works, unlocking its potential and opening new doors to operational excellence and competitive advantage. In the end, you get the performance and information you need to work smarter, closer, and smoother.

The low-code process automation platform from our technological partner Bizagi gives access to all of this.

About StoryShaper:

StoryShaper is an innovative start-up that supports its customers in defining their digital strategy and the development of automation solutions tailor-made.

Sources: StoryShaper, Bizagi