The organizational capacity to shift directions, align capabilities, and adapt to new understanding or events. It involves navigating uncertainty and change by proactively implementing countermeasures and leveraging mobility for competitive advantage.
Strategic Mobility is a critical concept in Enterprise Agility and is part of the Science of Accelerated Change and the M-Leadership Framework.
Some key aspects of Strategic Mobility:
Requires awareness - continually scanning the environment to detect shifts that necessitate change.
Involves cognitive flexibility to challenge old assumptions and open up new possibilities.
Means empowering people across the organization to take initiative.
Requires psychological safety and trust to encourage experimentation.
Enabled by modular, loosely coupled organizational structures that allow for reconfiguration.
Depends on leadership skills to align, motivate and inspire people through uncertainty.
It encompasses all the practices and approaches needed to keep teams. For more detailed information about them, check Enterprise Agility Fundamentals, Chapter 5.