Research/Requisite Agility

Research · Foundations

Built from the edge, not just the top.

Requisite Agility is an organisation’s ability to realise a definite purpose in an era of uncertainty: doing the right thing at the right time, even when it has never done that thing before. It is the research tradition our company is named after, and the reason Kybern is designed the way it is.

The idea

Most systems help an organisation see itself. Kybern helps it see what it is missing.

In Kybern

Three ideas from Requisite Agility, in software.

Edge

Edge-driven

Start from what people at the frontline actually experience, not only what the organisation records. When the KPI is green and people are still waiting, Kybern flags the gap.

Double-loop learning

Question the frame

When reality does not fit, change the question, not just the answer. Every problem definition is versioned and open to challenge. “Are we optimising the wrong thing?” is a first-class move.

Collective intelligence

Make sense together

See why people disagree: the evidence, the assumptions or the framing. Then decide, with any disagreement still visible.

In development. Simulated in the Kybern prototype today.

Try it

How agile is your organisation, really?

Requisite Agility Partners offer a short public diagnostic that gives a free snapshot of an organisation’s strengths, gaps and experiments worth trying.

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See Requisite Agility in Kybern.

Bring one decision where the frontline knows something the dashboard does not.