To survive, businesses must balance new product/service development effectiveness and operations efficiency. Companies fail every day from lacking balance between opposing needs of “right now” profit and investing in innovation to thrive long-term. Sometimes they careen chaotically between the two needs. Understanding business dynamics and the prevailing bias toward “stability” will help both agile adoption and achieving appropriate levels of business agility. In fact, agile approaches hold the key to a successful balance, meaning you as an agile practitioner can help your company succeed!
http://submit2012.agilealliance.org/files/session_pdfs/Business Agility and Innofficiency - Agile 2012 final.pdf
