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What every executive should know about organizational agility amid constant uncertainty.

Today’s executives face a myriad of challenges: AI disruption, economic uncertainty, cybersecurity threats, and escalating demands on leadership and talent. The true cost isn’t the complexity itself but the misalignment it reveals. When strategy, talent, execution, and technology aren’t moving as one, even high-performing organizations risk stalling at the moment clarity is most needed. 

Our research shows that the companies thriving amid change and disruption aren’t necessarily bigger, faster, or more resourced. Instead, they’re more fluid and in sync. 

This brief summarizes the key findings of Highspring's Agility Index Report to provide executives with a new path forward for driving alignment.

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Business impact

These alignment gaps carry real-world consequences. And the performance delta is only widening with greater business uncertainty.

Revenue
stagnation

Only 46% of low-agility companies report revenue growth in 2025, compared to 97% of high-agility peers.


Talent
drain

Misalignment erodes employee trust, leading to disengagement and attrition. High-agility companies score 96% on open communication and 94% on employee trust, more than 2x higher than low-agility peers.

Inflexibility

Even with a clear strategy, it’s often difficult to redirect teams or act on new opportunities. 73% of enterprise organizations cannot pivot teams within three weeks, stalling innovation and responsiveness.

Recommendation

Companies that succeed today won’t succeed tomorrow without prioritizing agility. To improve your organization’s agility, you need to take these steps: 

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Diagnose

  • Start by taking our Agility Calculator.
  • Assess where agility is working and where it’s blocked.
  • Use the Agility Index with the Calculator results to evaluate functions, teams, and leadership layers.
  • Look for friction points: siloed departments, slow decision-making, unclear resource ownership.
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Design

  • Build agility into the structure from the start.
  • Invest in leadership enablement, flexible team models, and learning and development systems.
  • Deploy technology that removes bottlenecks and supports faster pivots.
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Execute

  • Tie agility to outcomes and reinforce it through real-world performance.
  • Integrate agility metrics into KPIs.
  • Reward experimentation, responsiveness, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Mobilize talent and capital where they’re needed most, without delay.

A blueprint for Agility

Highspring doesn’t just advocate for Agility at Work, we rebuilt ourselves around it. Faced with the same fragmentation and misalignment we now help clients overcome, we made the hard choice to evolve. We unified our once-separate brands and capabilities (Consulting, Managed Services, and Talent Solutions) under a single, integrated enterprise: Highspring and Vaco by Highspring.

This transformation was operational, cultural, and strategic. We moved away from legacy models and into a new way of working, one defined by clarity, velocity, and connected execution. The result is more than a rebrand—it’s a blueprint to inspire the companies we help transform.

Agility at Work is now our foundation, and it’s what empowers us to help organizations seize their most pivotal moments with confidence by overcoming uncertainty.

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