{"id":73,"date":"2022-07-11T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2022-08-15T14:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T18:19:45","slug":"business-agility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/business-agility\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Agility: On the Shoulders of Giants and Giantesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to the Home of Academics in Business Agility Education and Research! This is my personal Blog, my name is Thomas Hormaza Dow. Although the name of this is the Home of Business Agility Education, I call this open literature review Blog \u201cOn the Shoulders of Giants <strong>and Giantesses<\/strong>\u201d as that title came to me after reading the work of Robert K. Merton and, of course, the foreword by Umberto Eco. It serves as my reminder and duty to recognize \u201cEverything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.\u201d \u2013 Alfred North Whitehead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>IntrAgility, InterAgility and ExtrAgility is an Educational Self-Reflection for Business Agility Beyond T-Shapes Agile Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Small clarification between M-Skills and <strong><em>\u03c0<\/em><\/strong>-Shaped Skills<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>We chose to include M-Skills instead of <strong><em>\u03c0<\/em><\/strong> because isn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/let-s-use-tau-it-s-easier-than-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">t=2\u03c0 anyway, right?<\/a> Not to mention that <strong><em>\u03c0<\/em><\/strong> is not N nor M in Greek, <strong><em>\u03c0<\/em><\/strong> is a P! Think about it, <strong>P Skills<\/strong> does not have the same ring to it when you look at it that way, would you not agree? \ud83d\ude03  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Business Agility Skills Development is a Continuum \u2013 Effectiveness depends on Context!<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-style-default\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-i-shaped-skills.png\" alt=\"business agility personal agility i-shaped skills\" class=\"wp-image-100 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-i-shaped-skills.png 600w, https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-i-shaped-skills-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-i-shaped-skills-18x10.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Personal Agility is an I-Shaped Skill, our Mindset, Emotional Intelligence, Interpersonal Skills, Introspection. Agility of this type is about our Way of Working, our Tasks, Tests and Learning.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-t-shaped-skills.png\" alt=\"business agility intragility t-shaped skills\" class=\"wp-image-101 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-t-shaped-skills.png 600w, https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-t-shaped-skills-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-t-shaped-skills-18x10.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"intragility\">Business IntrAgility<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">IntrAgility is a T-Shaped Skill, from inside out, effective in Departments (e.g., Agile Marketing, Agile HR, Agile Finance) but can be restrained if it is applied solely within one Sub-Function.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-m-shaped-skills.png\" alt=\"business agility interagility m-shaped skills\" class=\"wp-image-102 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-m-shaped-skills.png 600w, https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-m-shaped-skills-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-m-shaped-skills-18x10.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"interagility\">Business InterAgility<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">InterAgility is a M-Shaped Skill, visually describing a shape defined by General + Specialized Skills but extending into more than one Business Sub-Function.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-phi-shaped-skills.png\" alt=\"business agility extragility (phi) \u03a6-shaped skills\" class=\"wp-image-103 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-phi-shaped-skills.png 600w, https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-phi-shaped-skills-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/business-agility-phi-shaped-skills-18x10.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"extragility\">Business ExtrAgility<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">ExtrAgility is a (phi) \u03a6-Shaped Skill, a holistic view and encompasses aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>IntrAgility, InterAgility and ExtrAgility<\/strong> Sources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Hormaza Dow, T. (2022, April). Comparative website structural study and proposal of intragility, interagility and extragility as contextual framework to guide an adaptive business agility path [MBA Project]. Laval University, Faculty of Business Administration (FSA) Quebec, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Image Sources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Images Purchased and Adapted from https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/TarikVision<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Download <strong>IntrAgility, InterAgility and ExtrAgility<\/strong> Skill Self-Reflection PDF<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Business-Agility-Skills-MicroSession.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Embed of Business-Agility-Skills-MicroSession..\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-e3dd839e-e03b-4fcf-aec7-d71324134279\" href=\"https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Business-Agility-Skills-MicroSession.pdf\">Business-Agility-Skills-MicroSession<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/businessagility.education\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Business-Agility-Skills-MicroSession.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-e3dd839e-e03b-4fcf-aec7-d71324134279\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Home of Academics in Business Agility Education and Research! 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