Kurt Nick is here from Ideacast. I want to tell you about the Big Take

podcast from Bloomberg News. Each weekday they bring you one important story

from their global newsroom like how AI will upend your life and why China's

targeting the US dollar. Check out the big take from Bloomberg wherever you listen. Welcome to the HBRIDIA cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nickish. In a crisis, bureaucratic rules go out the

window. Companies go from having detailed strategic plans with

multi-stage budgeting approval and operational processes to suddenly crunching all of that

into just a few meetings,isions get streamlined, product timelines get

compressed, what used to take months and years, now could just take weeks or days or even

hours. That's happened in the current crisis, the coronavirus pandemic.

Some breweries pivoted to making disinfectants. Practically overnight some retailers

added curbside pickup. the British company Dyson designed a

ventilator in 10 days. Today's guest believes that despite the struggles, this

sudden nimbleness has been great for many organizations to adopt and he

worries that once this crisis has passed too many of them will go back to their

old static ways and he's here to talk about how companies can maintain their newfound agility.

Our guest is Darryl Rigby. He's a partner at the consultancy Bainen Company, and he's the

co-author along with Sarah Elk and Steve Buraz of the

HBR article The Agile C-suite and the new book Doing Agile Right, Transformation

Without Chaos.

Darryl, thanks for being here.

Kurt, it is a pleasure to be with you.

Thank you for having me. Now Agile, just as a word is tricky, can we just start with what is your definition of Agile?

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