Pathways to Agility

"Mass customization continues to grow as industry develops the concepts of agility."

"Agility can exist within the mass production or lean stages of industrialization."

"The concept of change in a corporate culture varies with the history of the firm."

"The amount of change that the leadership of a corporation desires must be balanced with the amount the organization is capable of handling."

"In many cases, conventional improvements to the supply chain must be accomplished to set the stage for change in business practice."

"Strategic mapping integrates the activities of strategic planning with all the stakeholders."

"In the supply chain, time is money."

"Operational agility is an essential part of the change process involving customers, markets, channels, and suppliers."

"Much change is occurring with customers, and a supplier must be in step with those changes."

"Placing routine decisions into a systems-based process will remove them from becoming a repetitive activity."

"Industrial agility will benefit from the computer revolution."

"Developing a vision of how commerce will be executed is a very critical step in developing capability."

"The process of changing the way a supply chain conducts business is an important part of the shift that is occurring in enterprises today."

"Providing the discipline for the agile or customization supply chain requires a degree of automation of the manufacturing process, the material movement, the information system, and the movement of cash."

"The heart of an agile process is the information and decision-making system."

"The ability to sustain or generate revenue growth or improved profits is the test of new capability success."

"The decision on the right process technology is not a simple one. It involves consideration of the customer, the supply chain, and the state of the product and process technology."

"The new product commercialization process must be agile to be successful."

"A very important part of the new business commercialization process is determining which opportunity will be selected."

"Attention to the market when expansion or new commercialization is the direction of the firm is essential to success."

"No matter where in the world the supply chain operates, to execute effectively, it will be necessary to address the people involved."

"Business relationships are important to optimization of commercial results."

"To make the significant change from the way we do business today to a way that includes agility and mass customization will require a change process that follows a pathway to agility."

"The pathways to agility represent the avenues for change to a more competitive company."