Flexibility Needed to Adapt to New Threats and Opportunities

Regus, the world’s largest provider of flexible workplaces just throws down the gauntlet to companies to find out how flexible they really are by taking the Kinetic Challenge. The test was (www.reguskinetic.com) designed by renowned work-place thinker Andrew Mawson and his team at Advanced Workplace Associates and is based on his latest research paper entitled The Kinetic Organisation. It explores how businesses can better organise themselves for success and the tool examines the flexibility of the respondent’s organisation based on their infrastructure, cost base, structure, leadership, people and culture, management information, environment and approach to risk management. Using peer comparison it then offers practical advice on how to improve.

 

Six ‘fundamentals’ are calibrated in the Kinetic Challenge, reflecting the study findings that a ‘kinetic organisation’ must be able to: Change without pain to adapt to new threats and opportunities; Realistically meet promises to clients, shareholders and people; Maintain a flexible cost base so that it can ‘inflate’ and ‘deflate’ its operations without penalty; Create a ‘safe’ environment where people are happy to share knowledge and innovate; Constantly keep products, services, people skills, capabilities, processes, infrastructure and costs under review to remain fresh and competitive; Allow elements within each structure to be treated and structured in different ways depending on their activities, risks and the markets in which they operate.