Systemic Innovation: Entrepreneurial Strategies and Market Dynamics

The term agility is now very often used to describe innovative management methods or companies. This chapter presents the origins of agility, the values and principles to which it refers and how it can be implemented or perceived in terms of decision‐making initiatives. Accelerating the design and feedback process from prototyping is one of the priorities in implementing an agile method. While agility is the result of empirical thinking and experience in product development and other solutions, in an innovative environment, it has an impact on the way the creativity process is approached within the organization. Design thinking is part of the family of agile design processes. It includes the importance of short design cycles and rapid testing including enhanced interaction with future product recipients. Agile monitoring must be linked to the innovation process in order to provide it with useful information in terms of exploitation and time frame appropriate to the innovation.