World Agile Management Conference on September 19-21, 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal

The World Agile Management Conference 2024 in Lisbon recognizes that an exciting new pattern of management is already emerging in forward-looking firms with concentrations in various parts of the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

The conference is about the ongoing revolution in the discipline of management, in which that the top 20% of firms are more highly valued and growing faster than the bottom 80% 

The conference will show how the management transformation under way involves more than adding new tools and processes and AI on top of the way firms have been run. It will show how leading firms increasingly recognize that new mindsets, mental models, attitudes, behaviors, processes, and corporate cultures are enhancing value for customers, energizing workforces, accelerating innovation, acquiring new competencies, and generating greater returns for investors. Firms become capable of delivering instant, intimate, frictionless value at scale.

Now, agility, innovation, adaptability, and rapid response are central, not peripheral. Rigid command-and-control processes and structures cannot succeed in the emerging age of rapid change, digital technology and AI. 

While many of these changes are under way at least in tiny islands in most firms, the leading firms are those in which the changes have become the main way of doing business throughout the whole organization. 

The conference will show the enhanced importance of entrepreneurship at all levels of the organization in order to create new business opportunities, not merely extending and expanding current businesses. 

The conference will go beyond the promotion of individual tools, frameworks, methods, methodologies, or processes. It will explore how the emerging discipline of management entails multiple mindsets, processes, and cultures that combine in a holistic fashion. The result is a set of capabilities that can address broader societal issues such as climate change, inequality and inclusion.