Organisations need to adapt themselves, adaptability becomes an organisational competence, a needed skill for survival. This changes the ways organisations structures and manage themselves. It will also influence the role of quality and the quality professionals.

In this session, we will learn more about business agility :

- When and why is agility needed?

- How is business agility influencing processes, structures and functions throughout the organisation?

- How can quality and the quality function lead in this change, or at least not hamper the change when it is needed?

Peter Coesmans, the Chief Agility Officer for the Agile Business Consortium (www.agilebusiness.org), a not for profit professional body for business agility, will take us through these conversations. He will not convince you to become agile, unless you see the need for it.

The presentation will focus at:

• VUCA: Why have business agility?

• What is business agility, how can an organisation or a part of an organisation be agile (introducing the Framework for Business Agility)?

• How could VUCA and agility influence quality and quality management?

At the end of the presentation there will be room for Q&A.