Improving Strategic Management with Agile Principles

With its roots in the scientific method in the 20th century, early Strategic Management can be described as a linear way to manage. It evolved into more adaptive and emergent forms in the mid-late 20th century as organizations grew in complexity, size, and scale, and most recently is at a critical point in its usefulness. As leaders and managers strive to keep up with the dynamic conditions of the present, how will strategic management adapt, adjust, and transform? The objective of this paper is to present the principles of the Agile Manifesto and explain how they can be applied to strategic management resulting in a new way to manage: Agile Strategic Management.